624 Court Street

 

Architecture:

    Style:                        Prairie Four Square

    Description:              This is a symmetrical, two-story wood frame building with a beveled concrete block foundation, cement siding, and a low pitch pyramidal roof.  Decorative elements include two hip window dormers that face north and east, and a one story half hexagonal bay on the west.  The full width front porch has boxed columns on block pillars and wood railing.  There is a leaded glass window transom over the first floor main facade window. 

 

 

Significant Period:

    Construction Date:     circa 1917

    Architect/Builder:       Unknown

    Context:                    This home first appears in the 1918-19 Port Huron City Directory with Frederick S. Anderson, Grand Trunk Railway conductor, and his wife Edith.  They lived there until the mid 1920’s.  Then, Thomas C. Mann, a ticket agent for Grand Trunk Railway, and his wife Ada S. lived there until at least 1940.