Architecture:
Style: Prairie
Four Square
Description: This is a two-story wood frame structure with brick on
the first story, wood shingle on the second story, and a brick foundation. The floor plan is square, and the low pitched
roof is pyramidal with a hipped dormer facing north. The full width front porch has a front gabled
roof, square wood columns on brick supports, and wood railing. Windows are double hung, with the upper half
divided into several vertical lights.
Significant
Period:
Construction Date: 1918
Architect/Builder: Unknown
Context: The
first house on this site was occupied by Judge Edward Harris and his wife
Sarah, from 1859 to 1915. The existing
house is not the original, as the outline does not match the house found on the
1903 and 1911 Sanborn Insurance Maps.
City Assessor Records state this house was built in 1918. Arthur and Ella Miller lived in this second
house from about 1918 to 1936. He was a
Grand Trunk railway mail clerk. James
and Estelle Mugan lived in the home from 1938 into
the 1940s. He was an auto financer at
the National Bank building.