C.F. Franke House | |
Location | 320 1st St., SE. Mason City, Iowa |
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Coordinates | 43°09′4.2″N93°11′42.8″W / 43.151167°N 93.195222°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1916 |
Architectural style | Prairie School |
MPS | Prairie School Architecture in Mason City TR |
NRHP reference No. | 80001432 [1] |
Added to NRHP | January 29, 1980 |
The C.F. Franke House is a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States. Built in 1916, the exterior of the two-story structure is covered with stucco. It utilizes the Mason City variant of the Prairie School style to stucco over corbelled masonry to form the wall panels for visual effect. [2] Although the eaves on the second story were cut back almost flush with the walls, the house maintains its horizontal emphasis, including the grouping of the casement windows. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
The Roberts House is a historic house at 59 Prospect Street in Reading, Massachusetts. The two-story house is basically Colonial Revival in character, but also exhibits Craftsman style features, including extended eaves with exposed rafter ends, stucco walls, and a chunky entrance portico. The window above the entrance is a Shingle style band of three casement windows, and there is a hip-roof dormer in the roof above. The house is one of Reading's better examples of Craftsman architecture, and was built in 1911, during a building boom on the town's west side.
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The C. P. Shipley House was a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States. Clinton Pardes Shipley (1851–1936) was a native of Baltimore County, Maryland. He married Margaret A. McMillin (1853–1940) in Mason City on November 17, 1875. The two-story Prairie School house, completed in 1913, had a stucco exterior, a broad hip roof and overhanging eaves. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The house has subsequently been torn down. The Globe Gazette building is now on the property.
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