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This Queen Anne emphasizes its verticality with a massive, octagonal two-story tower with a turret on the south edge of the façade. Decorated with fish scale wood shingles on the second floor and square-cut wood shingles on the first, it has a recessed porch on the north with paired, narrow porch columns, and an elaborate door with sidelights. The façade’s second-story oriel window is a later alteration.

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Timeline

• 1902

  This home was built in 1902 for Herbert I. Reid and his wife Mary Belle Gibbs.

  Reid had arrived in 1882 at the age of 23 and spent the remainder of his life as a pioneering engineer, recognized as the father of the City’s water system.

  Starting in 1886, as County Surveyor, Reid then served 15 years as the City Engineer, constructing Lake Moraine, City Reservoirs 2, 6 & 7, the Ruxton Pipeline, Prospect Lake, the Broadmoor water system, the Strickler tunnel, and the High Drive, among other projects.

  Mary died in 1905, but Herbert raised their son and 4 daughters while living here; three taught in a local school. Reid lived in this home until 1941.

Additional Resources

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