About

This is a rich Queen Anne of two and one-half stories. Deep eaves with fish-scale wood shingles in the façade gable end, accented with arrow shingles. Both the first and second floors are clad in square-cut wood shingles. A fanlight display decorates the pediment over the steps leading to the front porch, and the front door has detailed sidelights and a topflight. The full-width porch wraps around the south elevation, and narrow columns support the porch roof. A turret tops a round corner. Yet another two-story tower sits on the southwest corner of the house, decorated with fish-scale over diamond cut shingles in a wavy pattern at the top and square cut shingles at the bottom.

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Timeline

• 1895

  The initial occupants of this home were brothers Samuel S. Bernard and George. They were local grocers.

  In 1893, they grubstaked blacksmith William Shemwell to prospect the Elkton mine. Luckless, Shemwell turned over shares and his works, and the brothers agreed to continue work for only two weeks. They located a rich vein just in time. The Elkton mine was later merged with other claims and generated another local set of millionaires.

  Samuel became a mining broker and later founded a jewelry business.

Additional Resources

• Drive Folder – a collection of documents compiled during the Historic Uptown Neighborhood’s historic preservation efforts.