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Arnett-Fuller House Boulder Colorado
06/17/2026

Arnett-Fuller House

Boulder Colorado

Charles A. Wickham House Built in 1890 by Jerome Bibb Legg Original address: 401 North Taylor Current address: 4487 McPh...
06/15/2026

Charles A. Wickham House Built in 1890 by Jerome Bibb Legg Original address: 401 North Taylor Current address: 4487 McPherson

This house at the corner of Taylor and McPherson was built in 1890 for Charles A. Wickham at the northwest corner of the streets, and originally had its front door facing Taylor. Wickham was a restauranteur, and owned the Grand Restaurant downtown. Wickham only lived at the house for two years before it was acquired by Charles W. Nugent for 30,000. Nugent was vice president of the Nugent's Dry Goods Company, and lived at the house until 1905. At the time, he made a deal with Herbert Vrooman to trade his residence and lots around it for some existing apartments on Lindell, and Vrooman planned to build an apartment complex on the site.

After the agreement was made, Nugent had a new mansion built in Kingsbury Place. As Vrooman prepared to build the apartment complex, he had a permit for 2000 to move the house across the street, and another 1000 permit for the new foundation. The house was moved across the street and rotated so that the front faces McPherson, and Vrooman had the house converted into high end apartments. Today, the house is one of the few in the Central West End that are still used as a multi family dwelling.

This house was built by architect Jerome Bibb Legg in the Queen Anne style for 17,000. At the time of its completion, it was considered to be one of the finest homes in the neighborhood. The house features two large towers, one in front and one in back, as well as a large keyhole window on the second floor.

Legg had designed and built a number of fine Queen Anne homes around the city at this time, including at least three on Lindell, several on West Pine, and two on Delmar, one on which was the Culver House. Legg was diverse in his architectural abilities, and had redesigned the Missouri State Capitol a year before building this house, as well as having dozens of major projects before that, such as the Music and Exposition Hall.

Henry P. Kent House // 1871 Located on South Main Street in Suffield, Connecticut, this stunning Second Empire mansion s...
06/15/2026

Henry P. Kent House //

1871 Located on South Main Street in Suffield, Connecticut, this stunning Second Empire mansion showcases the to***co wealth seen in the town in the mid-to-late 19th century. Local legend states that in the early 1800s, a Cuban man arrived into town and was hired by a local farmer to grow to***co and roll ci**rs for sale.

Decades later, dozens of farmers in Suffield erected to***co barns and cultivated to***co to be rolled in ci**rs and shipped to communities all over the east coast. One of the first men in Suffield to box the ci**rs as a pack for shipping and sale was Henry Phelps Kent (1803-1887). With his success, Henry Kent purchased a large lot on the town’s Main Street and hired local architect, John C. Mead, to design a mansion to display his success in business.

The large Second Empire mansion features flush-board siding, a full length porch, and a projecting mansarded tower with convex roof. The home was later owned by Samuel R. Spencer, a politician who served as a Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, the first as a blind man.

06/15/2026

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This is the Frederick A. Fogg house, located on Summit Avenue. Freddie built this house in 1899 to replace another that ...
06/15/2026

This is the Frederick A. Fogg house, located on Summit Avenue. Freddie built this house in 1899 to replace another that once stood here. Freddie was an investment banker.

This house was designed by architect Allen H. Stem. At one point, after World War II, the house was divided into 14 sleeping rooms and 5 kitchens. It is back to being a single family.

ca. 1868 One of several Italianate homes along Worthington Avenue in Wyoming. This example represents the front gable va...
06/15/2026

ca. 1868 One of several Italianate homes along Worthington Avenue in Wyoming. This example represents the front gable variant, found in approximately 10% of Italianate homes, and also features a corner turret added in the late 19th Century. An early resident was Walter Alonzo King, a pastor who took graduate philosophy classes at Harvard and later immersed himself in the Chautauqua social movement of the period.

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06/14/2026

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Blain St, Piety Hill Neighborhood, North end Detroit, Michigan. Designed by Kestler & Hunter, built in 1902 for Alfred D...
06/13/2026

Blain St, Piety Hill Neighborhood, North end Detroit, Michigan. Designed by Kestler & Hunter, built in 1902 for Alfred Day.

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