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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: (Constniction data, alteratio~~s, and date of alterations) Year Built: circa 1895 Screen Porcli: August 13, 1924 Alterations: October 30, 1929 5x 10 addition to residence: duly 2, 1945 Repair brick footings at porch: December 8,1998 RELATED I+EATUR>;S: {Other important features such as barns, sheds, fences, prominent or tuius~~al trees, or landscape) Nane identified DESCRIPTION: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, settings, and boundaries.} The nicely detailed prominent front gable and narrow clapboard siding indicates that this house was probably built in the 1890's. Vertical venhvork of varying widths and diago-~al molding-edged trim provide a pleasing pattern in the gables that face the front and sides of this tall building, with double cross-gable roof. Pairs often-light casement windows are used throughout the second story. A large arched plate glass whidoev, located in the center of the front facade, vas probably installed iji the late 1920's, at il~e same time as the casement windows. Enclosed porches, fcaturing ribbons often-light windows, flank the large window ifi tl~e center of the front facade. The Sanborn snap of 1924 shows the original open e35try porch on the north side and an open porch on the south side. Both originally stopped at the edge of t1~e front facade of the house. Brick wainscotting was installed when the porches were enclosed. Because the alteratiot~s occurred more than fifty years ago, they are considered part of the historic fabric. However the jalousie windows on the north and south sides are more recent. The most identifiable features, which make this building a Stick/Eastlake style include: the decorative tntsses at the apex of the gables, the vertical venrivork, the steeply gabled roof, the narrow clapboard siding and the elongated windows. HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS: This house first shows up on the Sanborn map in 1$95. However, it is not until 1909 that it is listed in tlfe directories. William Thomas, a local attorney, is the first resident listed at this address in 1969, Wallace and Mabel R~itan awned the house during the 1910's. He vas a prominent attorney with the firm of Rutati a~id Tucker. The firm still is in existence today. Willard ajid Marie Patterson owned the house from the 1920's through the 1940's. He was the manager of the General Bottling and Distribution Company at 1420 W. 5'h St. and later, the Whistle BotEli~ig Company. RESOURCE ATTRIBUTES: (List attributes and codes from Appendix 4 of I~~stnictions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of Historic Preservation.} H1'2 Single Family property Page 2 of 4 LL1111tG1ca tegorie slrutatt [t)-5-00