Smith House

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Address: 947 Union St, Arcata, CA 95521, USA
City: Arcata
Postal code: 95521
Year Built 1904
Period Victorian Architecture c. 1885-1900
Structure Order 76
947 Union Street
Smith House, 947 Union Street


A gablet roof, which is somewhat spoiled by the added south-side dormer on this house, and a pediment above a cutaway bay identify this simplified Queen Anne cottage of the early 1900s. This house was completed in the fall of 1904 for Margaret Smith; four similar cottages were built that same year on 7th Street between K and L Streets. Victorian detail makes a final appearance on these houses: colored glass window borders in the bays and stairway lights, porches with turned posts, brackets and cutout frieze boards and railings.

 
947 Union Street
Smith House, 947 Union Street

A gablet roof, which is somewhat spoiled by the added south-side dormer on this house, and a pediment above a cutaway bay identify this simplified Queen Anne cottage of the early 1900s. This house was completed in the fall of 1904 for Margaret Smith; four similar cottages were built that same year on 7th Street between K and L Streets. Victorian detail makes a final appearance on these houses: colored glass window borders in the bays and stairway lights, porches with turned posts, brackets and cutout frieze boards and railings.