Quincy House Tour

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Although this house has a Park Place address, the front of this 1917 Georgian revival house sits on Twelfth Street. Constructed by George Behrensmyer, this residence is indicative of the Colonial Revival popular in the second decade of the 20th Century. Many suburban homes seen throughout the Midwest were adhering to the more traditional building styles, particularly the English Tudor revival and the Georgian revival.

In this house one can seen a clear definition of the front door on the Twelfth Street side of the house. Symmetry and alignment dominates the overall design and even the Park Place facade is symmetrical in itself and gives the impression of another front facade.

Clad in traditional dark red brick, this home resembles Eighteenth Century plantation houses seen in the Potomac Valley region of Virginia. Large Doric columns, classical entablatures and large double hung windows with operating shutters all characterize these houses with the colonial architecture developed in the offices of Sir Christopher Wren, the British architect during the time of the colonization of the new world.

The overall proportions of this house are very horizontal and take advantage of the long corner lot for which it is placed. The hip roof allows the house to remain low in profile and permit gable dormers with Doric pilasters and palladian window forms.

Over the side porch on the Park Place facade is a Georgian balustrade with rectangular key patterns reminiscent of the Wren Phase in America.