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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The County's Handsomest House: The Story of Somerville's American-Gothic Classic

The County's Handsomest House: The Story of Somerville's American-Gothic Classic

Sullivan, Margaret Wolan
Somerville Borough, Historic Advisory Co

Paperback

General Architecture

ISBN13: 9798681823971
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2020
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Somerville New Jersey has a municipal and library building that looks like something out of a Gothic romance. At the end of what appears to be a typical suburban Main Street sits a castle. The story of how Somerville acquired its castle, the man who built it, and the preservation of an award-winning classic of American Gothic architecture stretches from the early 19th to the 21st century. It involves the growth of a small town and the rise and tribulations of a colorful, but not widely known, colonial-American family. Victorians believed one's home was one's castle, but this philosophy was realized in the Daniel Robert House. History and architecture buffs will be intrigued by the artistry and planning of one man's private castle, one that now is a building serving the public and a National Register site.

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