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Tour of Homes 2005
Brinkerhoff House - 902 - 22nd Street This house is Queen Anne in style with Stick Style decorations. One of the most unique features of this house is one of its least obvious. Its footprint is backwards. Nearly all houses build in this era had the stairwell on the north wall; here the stairwell is on the south wall. Also the front porch would traditionally have been on the corner of the house closest to the intersection. A two story addition was built on the rear of house in the 1920s when the owners mother-in-law moved in with the family. In the early 1990s the house was a "Victorian Decorators Show Home" with each interior room done by a different decorator showing off the best of Victorian design.
Mitchell House - 720 - 20th Street The famous dollar house is Italianate in design with the unique belvedere. The house was built in 1868 by Charles Harrison Case. Because the house was divided in 14 apartments in the 1940s very little of original interiors remained. The current owners are relying on photographs from the archives at the University of Illinois to recreate elements of the interiors.
Young House - 830 - 22nd Street This house was designed by local architect Leonard Drack and built in 1907. The style is a combination of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. Queen Anne features include the octagonal tower, multiple bays and extensive use of ornamental glass. The Colonial Revival elements are seen in the hip-roof with dormers, the very narrow clapboard surfaces and the plain molding on the door and window frames. Reputedly the work of Italian master craftsmen, the raised plaster work throughout the house looks as though it produced by using giant pastry bags to apply the wet plaster like so much cake icing.
Reeves House - 839 - 23rd Street As styles evolve, it is difficult to find a house that is completely one style or another. This house is a mixture of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival elements. The northwest turret is classic Queen Anne while the Tuscan porch columns, the apparent small panes of glass in the upper windows and the steep side gabled roof are more evocative of the Colonial Revival style. Inside the house the current owners, Dan & Sue Carothers, found the front oak staircase which had been completely enclosed when the house was divided into a duplex in the 1950s. The opening to the front parlor was revealed during plaster restoration.
Taylor House - 908 - 20th Street The house style is a combination of high Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. The overall shape, with complex roofline, projection bays, octagonal tower and grateful semicircular porch are typical of Queen Anne architecture. Beautiful leaded glass fanlights, one in the stairwell and one in the front hall, are Colonial Revival details. The simple porch columns are also a Colonial Revival feature. Mother's Day Tour of Homes 2001 Mother's Day Tour of Homes 2002 |
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