672 North Greenbrier Street
Built: 1891
Style: Queen Anne
The Muller House was architect Augustus Gauger's largest residential commission on the bluff. The architect's fondness for rounded forms is displayed in the corner tower and its upper story windows, tiny eyebrow windows that until recently graced the towers cap, and a oversized staircase window. Unfortunately, the stained glass that once filled these windows is now gone. Gauger's clients were, as usual, German immigrants, this time an on-again-off-again employee of Hamm's Brewery and his wife, a daughter of Theodore Hamm himself. For many years the house was heated by steam piped up the hill from the brewery. Most of its vigorously contoured exterior survives except for a spindlework porch, the victim of repeated insensitive remodelings. |
