| Additional Information: | One of the finest mid-century reisdences in Beloit, this house is an architecturally significant example of the Italianate style, with a commanding site on top of the hill at the northeast corner of Horace White Park. Florid in its profuse detail yet controlled by a classical rectilinear spirit, the two story frame house is at once stately and exhuberant. The low-pitched hip roof, crowned with a balustrade and two symmetrically disposed chimneys, has widely projecting eaves, treated as a classical cornice and supported by paired scroll brackets. A heavy molded frieze, with perforated ventilator panels, surrounds the house and thin corner boards frame it. A veranda, complete with paired pillars, brackets, banister and balustrade, shelters the first floor. The symmetrically placed 4 over 4 windows, tall and narrow in proportion, are surmounted on the second floor by segmentally arched window heads and on the first floor by pedimented heads. The center window on the second story has a Palladiam motif, with rounded center sash, and the entry door has a segmented arch, transom, and side pilasters. Bay windows project on either side. Although all the detail is ornately carved and molded, the clapboard siding is taut and unornamented, adding restraint to the exuberant detail.
In 1869, R. Newcomb built this house, a portion of which was reputedly moved to 1410 White. The house on that site is clearly of a mid 19th century origin, but was not at that location prior to 1913. There was no change in the assessment for 905 Bushnell at that time, however; thus, the tax roll records do not offer conclusive proof of a move (perhaps the former wing was moved twice). An old photographic view of the house from the west does show a rear wing which is gone. |
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