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| Street Address: |
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| 225 W. 11th
Street |
| Date of
Construction: |
| Late 1800’s |
| Historic Name: |
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| Common Name: |
| Wm. Heusing House |
| This is a very
interesting two story rectangular Queen Anne style home with cut rock faced rectangular
and square Waverly Stone on the walls. It has a belt course of stone on both stories. The
open front porch has radiating voissiour, a stone supporting column with cut stone
capital, and a shed roof. The open back porch has bracketed turned support columns. The
roof is steeply pitched and multi-leveled with a center gable. The windows are 1/1 sash
and are arched with radiating voissiours. The second story includes a parallelogram shaped
window following the line of the roof and an east bay window with fancy cut metal work on
the roof in front of it. |
| The home was
originally owned at the turn of the century by Peter Slooter, a setter, his wife Madeline
and son Isaac, who owned a shoe store. In the early 1900’s, the home was owned by Art
Plakke, a cabinet maker, and his wife Hattie. During the early 1920’s, this was the
home of George Witt, a veneer worker at the Chas. P. Limbert Furniture Company. From 1929
to 1965, this was the home of the William H. Heusing family. Mr. Heusing, a veteran of the
Spanish-American War, lived in the home for 44 years. |
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