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| Street Address: |
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| 119 W. 11th
Street |
| Date of
Construction: |
| 1880 (approx) |
| Historic Name: |
| Leendert Kanters Home |
| Common Name: |
| Hattie Bishop Home |
| This very interesting
Queen Anna home has incorporated several Italianate characteristics: double front door
with rounded arches in the panels, bracheted window trim, and tall first floor windows.
But the gay abandon of the Queen Anne style has completely overcome any Italianate
formality. The very decorative shingle pattern in the gables, the imitation half timbering
and additional patches of shingles on the walls, and the windows with borders of small
colored panes, all point to the later period. There is vertical, horizontal, or slanting
wiid siding present, in patches under all the first floor windows and covering entirely
the bay on the east side. A gabled dormer on the east side is supported by decorative
brackets. |
| This home was
originally owned by Mina and Leendert T. Kanters. By 1894, the home was occupied by John
and Anna VanLandegend. He was a plumber. Mrs. VanLandegend lived here after her
husband’s death. In the 1920s , the home was owned by Hattie Bishop. It may have been
during this period that the home was converted into a two-family dwelling. James DeYoung,
secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Home Furnace Company, and president of the
board of public works lived here during the 1920s and ‘30s. Later a millwright,
Sidney Jarvis and his wife, resided in the home with Hattie Bishop. Bert and Emma Kraai
bought the home in the early 1960s and lived there until the late 1970s. |
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