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Property Features
Features include: siding of flush boards separated to create strong horizontal shadow lines; 5-bay facade with one-bay palladian styled entrance with broken pediment with "Rising Sun" design on the typanum and stylized classical column supports over side lighted entrance door, framed by applied pilasters; six over six windows; screened east side porch; cornice returns and quarter round window in gable ends; shed roofed dormer and one-story addition at the rear; palladian styled window in east gable.
In the mode of the colonial style that the later brought national recognition to Percy Bentley, the Scott House is significant as the only example of the Colonial Revival style by Percy Bentley in partnership with Otto Merman in La Crosse.
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