John McAra House

Last updated

John McAra House
1982 John McAra House.png
Location2157 Irish Rd., Davison, Michigan
Coordinates 43°00′03″N83°33′17″W / 43.00083°N 83.55472°W / 43.00083; -83.55472 (John McAra House)
Arealess than one acre
Built1892 (1892)
Architectural style Queen Anne
MPS Genesee County MRA
NRHP reference No. 82000522 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 26, 1982

The John McAra House is a single-family home located at 2157 Irish Road in Davison, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

John McAra built this house in 1892. It is a two-story brick Queen Anne structure with a slate roof and a large, open wrap-around porch in the front. The porch has a lattice-like tower section, turned columns, and decorative bargeboards. The panels in the gable ends are ornately carved. The house is one of the most sophisticated examples of rural Queen Anne styling in the surrounding area. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles L. Cushman House</span> Historic house in Maine, United States

The Charles L. Cushman House is an historic house at 8 Cushman Place in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1889 for the son of a major local shoe manufacturer, it is unusual as an example of Queen Anne architecture executed in stone, and is one of the finest residential commissions of Lewiston architect George M. Coombs. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mulford T. Hunter House</span> Historic house in Michigan, United States

The Mulford T. Hunter House is a private residence located at 77 West Hancock Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Wells House</span> Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

The Charles Wells House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The two-story Queen Anne Victorian wood-frame house was built in 1894 by Charles Wells, a New Brunswick blacksmith who married a Reading woman. The house is clad in clapboards and has a gable roof, and features a turret with an ornamented copper finial and a front porch supported by turned posts, with a turned balustrade between. A small triangular dormer gives visual interest to the roof above the porch. The house is locally distinctive as a surviving example of a modest Queen Anne house, complete with a period carriage house/barn.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">House at 25 Avon Street</span> Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

25 Avon Street is a historic house, and is significant as one of the more elaborate Queen Anne Victorian houses in the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">House at 9 White Avenue</span> Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

The House at 9 White Avenue in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a well-preserved transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival house. Built about 1903, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Queen Anne style architecture in the United States</span> Architectural style during Victorian Era

Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910. Popular there during this time, it followed the Second Empire and Stick styles and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles. Sub-movements of Queen Anne include the Eastlake movement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chamberlin House (Concord, New Hampshire)</span> Historic house in New Hampshire, United States

The Chamberlin House is a historic house at 44 Pleasant Street in Concord, New Hampshire. Built in 1886, it is a prominent local example of Queen Anne architecture built from mail-order plans, and now serves as the clubhouse of the Concord Women's Club. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marks–Family House</span> Historic house in Ohio, United States

The Marks–Family House is a historic house on the eastern side of Delphos, Ohio, United States. Erected along Franklin Street in 1902, it is a one-and-one-half-story house built in the Queen Anne style of architecture. Among its features are a tower in the corner of the house, a large wraparound porch with Ionic columns, and leaded glass windows of many shapes and sizes. Nearly every element of the interior is original, including the woodworking, the floors, the doors, the fireplace, the carvings, and much of the furniture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phillips House (Poughkeepsie, New York)</span> Historic house in New York, United States

Phillips House is a historic home located at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. It was built about 1891 and is a two-story, Queen Anne–style dwelling with an asymmetrical, slate-covered roof. It features a front porch with turned posts and balusters and scalloped shingle and spool decoration.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John and Amelia McClintock House</span> Historic house in Illinois, United States

The John and Amelia McClintock House is a historic building located at 321 E. Main Street in Grafton, Illinois. Boat builder John McClintock built the house for his family circa 1910. The rock-faced concrete house, an unusual departure from Grafton's limestone buildings, has a Queen Anne design. The entrance is located at the corner of a wraparound front porch and is topped by a conical roof. The front of the house has a cutaway bay, giving the house an asymmetrical appearance, and the gable roof has multiple components; both features are typical of Queen Anne designs. The building is now used as a commercial property.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John McCaleb House</span> Historic house in Arkansas, United States

The John McCaleb House is a historic house at Main Street and Sidney Road in Evening Shade, Arkansas. It is a 1+12-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof studded with cross gables and dormers. Built c. 1900, it is an outstanding local example of Queen Anne styling, with its complex massing and roofline, projecting gable sections, a recessed attic porch, an octagonal turret, and porch with turned posts and jigsawn brackets. The interior retains significant period decoration, including woodwork and wallpaper.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liddell-McNinch House</span> Historic house in North Carolina, United States

Liddell-McNinch House is a historic home located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built between 1891 and 1893, and is a 2+12-story, Queen Anne / Shingle Style frame dwelling. The house has a highly complex roofline of projections, gables, porches, and spreading eaves, and wall surfaces of weatherboards, shingles, broken planes, swells, and cavities. It features a wraparound porch and a recessed porch on the second level. President William Howard Taft visited the McNinch House in 1909.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tudor House (Stamford, Vermont)</span> Historic house in Vermont, United States

The Tudor House is a historic house on Vermont Route 8 in Stamford, Vermont. Built in 1900 by what was probably then the town's wealthiest residents, this transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival house is one of the most architecturally sophisticated buildings in the rural mountain community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harrington House (Bethel, Vermont)</span> Historic house in Vermont, United States

The Harrington House is a historic house at 88 North Road in Bethel, Vermont. Built in 1890–91, it is a fine example of high-style Queen Anne Victorian architecture, a relative rarity in the state. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Its most recent additions have included a restaurant, bed and breakfast inn.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martin L. Kelsey House</span> Historic house in Vermont, United States

The Martin L. Kelsey House is a historic house at 43 Elmwood Avenue in Burlington, Vermont. Built in 1879 for a local merchant, it is a distinctive and architecturally varied house, with elements of the Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Stick styles on display. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and now forms part of a senior housing complex.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">F.W. Wheeler House</span> Historic house in Vermont, United States

The F.W. Wheeler House is a historic two-family residence at 31 Intervale Street in Richford, Vermont. Built in 1904 for a photographer, it is an unusual instance in the community of a duplex with Queen Anne styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">North Ann Arbor Street Historic District</span> United States historic place

The North Ann Arbor Street Historic District is a residential historic district, consisting of the houses at 301, 303, and 305-327 North Ann Arbor Street in Saline, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Minnie Priest Dunton House</span> Historic house in Idaho, United States

The Minnie Priest Dunton House was designed by John E. Tourtellotte and constructed in Boise, Idaho, United States, in 1899. The original Queen Anne design was that of a single family home, but the house was remodeled by Tourtellotte & Hummel in 1913 and became a seven-bedroom boardinghouse with Tudor Revival features. Dunton named her house "Rosemere" for her rose garden. It was included as a contributing property in the Fort Street Historic District on November 12, 1982. The house was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1982.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Morris Sommer House</span> United States historic place

The Morris Sommer House, at 548 W. 2nd St. in Weiser, Idaho, was built in 1899. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Galligan House</span> United States historic place

The Galligan House, at 501 Colorado Ave. in Pueblo, Colorado, is a Queen Anne-style house which was built in 1891 for a prominent Pueblo lawyer. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Karen Bean (May 1982), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: John McAra House