About

This is a Late Victorian gable end house, two and one-half stories tall, decorated with multiple brackets and dentils below the roof line and the porch balcony. There is a distinctive Palladian window set in the boxed gable. On the second-story porch, a doorway provides access plus a second-story railing across the full width of the home. The first-story porch also has a full-width railing with an offset front door featuring a top light. The building is clad in narrow lap siding.

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Timeline

• 1902

  This house was built as a rooming house, first for the widow Mrs. Emma Fountain. The next year, Mrs. Euphemia van Dusen operated the home as a boarding house.

Additional Resources

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