My House:
Two-and-a-half story, 1880 built, asymmetrical brick house with stone foundation, roughly rectangular in plan. Main roof hipped, with numerous dormers, one gable extending toward the front and a large square tower at the southeast corner. This tower has a bell-cast, high-pitched roof, with small gable dormers on all four sides. The façade is divided into three bays. In the center is the protruding gable-topped "nose" of the building. Across the full width of the façade is a porch at the first-story level, with a flat roof supported by ornately turned columns.
My Puzzle:
Most puzzling is the square four-story tower. The arched 1/1 double hung windows with brick crowning are also puzzling. Lastly, the brick's texture (roughly a musty light brown with yellow highlights) and its juxtaposition to the wood solid colored molding seem a strange combination, especially when period color palettes are considered.
Advice
- This house was built in Saginaw, MI, roughly around 1880.
- It's about 5,000 square feet, and was probably commissioned by an architect.
- There are no other houses in the city which reflect the design of this house save a clapboard Gothic-Revial / Queen Anne adjacent with another square tower.
Share your ideas about this home.
Jackie Craven, Architecture Guide, says:
What a wonderful, eclectic example of Victorian architecture. Your home illustrates how freely Victorian-era builders borrowed ideas from several different styles, creating their own unique mixes.
