St. Paul : Dayton's Bluff Neighborhood

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Dayton's Bluff Neighborhood

Boyhood home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun

847 Fourth Street Built: 1906 Style: Foursquare Justice Blackmun lived in this simple frame home during his boyhood. The strongest visual feature of this four-square design is the front gable with its classical inspired Palladian window. Other classical detailing was probably removed or concealed when the asphalt siding was applied over the clapboards. The American Foursquare style house is a substyle of the Prairie house and, like the Prairie style, is a truly indigenous American architectural expression. The Prairie house was developed and popularized by Chicago's Prairie School of architecture and by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The American Foursquare, as a vernacular style, gained widespread popularity with the publication of residential pattern books shortly after the turn of the century. The style was nationally popular between 1900 and 1920.

Comment: (141.217.41.121) Detroit, Michigan has whole neighborhoods of four-square houses. many of them are two-flats; sadly, most have become slums--St.Paul fan from Motown.

Comment: (205.215.222.250) Its way to old and election is over

Comment: with a little TLC, this could be a real showplace.