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726 West Washington Street <br />{ Baker House <br />,19 The Baker House dates from 1888 and offers another <br />interpretation of the Queen Anne Style. In architecture, <br />phrase to describe a traditional style, blended with current trends <br />and adapted to a particular location or preference is vernacular <br />architecture. Though the exterior fagade is less complicated than <br />previous examples along West Washington <br />Street, the significant porch and artfully,: _ <br />articulated spindle work, projecting bays and . <br />gables are appropriate to both the time and <br />intentionally casual appearance of this home. <br />the <br />73o West Washington Street <br />Meagher House <br />The Meagher House, built in 1884, offers a visually <br />stimulating example of the Stick Style. Stick is considered <br />both the first "modern" house of the Victorian age, and also a style <br />that "bridges" the picturesque Gothic of the 1840-50's and the Queen <br />Anne style seen elsewhere on West Washington <br />Street. However it is categorized, the Stick Style is <br />an unmistakable celebration of carpentry in ways <br />that were new, modern and described as vivacious <br />for it's time. As was typical, the Meagher house is <br />highly ornamented and colorful. AN <br />739 West Washington Street <br />2i Gergam House <br />Just as some homes along West Washington display new <br />styles and innovation, 739 West Washington is an example <br />of a nod to the classics. This Renaissance Revival home was built in <br />1923, as the popularity of that style was waning. As the renaissance <br />looked to history (Greek and Roman) for <br />inspiration, Renaissance Revival looks to the <br />European villas built at or near the time of the <br />renaissance for inspiration. The symmetrical <br />organization of the home, and hipped roof with e <br />wide overhang denote an Italian influence here. <br />744 West Washington Street <br />122r Listenberger House <br />Another classic Italianate graces the corner of West <br />Washington and Chapin Street in the Listenberger House, <br />built in 1880. This style was widely popular through the 189os. As <br />seen previously, the roof line complete with <br />decorative brackets indicate the Italianate style; this <br />time realized in brick construction. The tall, narrow <br />windows and ornate window hood moldings add to <br />the elegance of the home. In the recent past, this <br />home had been re -purposed into a funeral home but <br />has returned to single family occupancy. <br />803 West Washington Street <br />Kizer House <br />Masonry construction, round_ towers or turrets and conical <br />roofs are all typical of the Romanesque Revival style of the <br />Kizer House built in 1890, some six years before its formidable <br />neighbor Copshaholm. Romanesque Revival owes its 4. <br />inspiration for design and materials to loth -13th.:; <br />century Europe, and typifies what most would consider <br />the somewhat stylized "castle -like" architecture of <br />thick reinforced walls, gables, towers, turrets and <br />belfries. The Kizer house and its carriage house has = " <br />long been subdivided into several apartments. <br />808 West Washington Street <br />2 ` Copshahoim <br />This extraordinary home was designed by the New York <br />design firm of Lamb and Rich in 1896 for J. D. Oliver and <br />family. The Oliver's were the very prosperous owners of the Oliver <br />Chilled Plow Works of South Bend. This grand home, built of <br />Indiana limestone, boasts 38 -rooms, large <br />elegant porches, and many fine details realized <br />in colored stone. Copshaholm is named for the <br />Oliver's ancestral home in Scotland. The home fY 4 <br />is now operated as a museum by the Northern <br />Indiana Center for History. k ,; . _,- <br />