Horace E. Thompson House, 808 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Horace E. Thompson House
Photo Taken 2001
Address:	808 Summit Avenue
Neighborhood/s:	Summit Hill, Saint Paul, Minnesota
City/locality- State/province	Saint Paul, Minnesota
County- State/province:	Ramsey County, Minnesota
State/province:	Minnesota
Country:	United States
Year built:	1903
Primary Style:	Beaux Arts
Secondary Style:	Renaissance"Renaissance" is not in the list (A-Frame, American Four-Square, Art Deco/Art Moderne, Arts and Crafts/Craftsman, Beaux Arts, Bungalow/Bungaloid, Cape Cod, Carpenter Gothic, Chateauesque, Classical Revival, ...) of allowed values for the "Secondary style" property.
Historic Function:	Single Dwelling"Single Dwelling" is not in the list (House/single dwelling or duplex, Airport terminal, Apartments/condominiums, Auditorium/music facility, Bank/financial institution, Barn/agricultural building, Business, Capitol, City hall/town hall/, Civic, ...) of allowed values for the "Historic function" property.
Architect or source of design:	H.I. Wicks of Green and Wicks
Builder:	St. Paul Building Company
First Owner:	Horace E. Thompson

Summit Hill Saint Paul Ramsey

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Horace E. Thompson House, 808 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota
(44.941338,-93.134253)

History

Horace E. Thompson built the 808 Summit Avenue home in 1903. The house was constructed for an estimated cost of $35,000 and designed by H. I. Wicks of the architectural firm Green and Wicks of Buffalo, New York. It is only one of a handful of houses on Summit designed by out of state architects. Thompson is listed in the 1903 city directory as "capitalist" at the Merchants National Bank Building. He lived there with his wife, Ida S, three sons, and two daughters until 1920. The family also housed four servants and one laborer. Charles A. Weyerhaeuser and wife, Maud Moon, preceded the Thompsons in the home. After Charles’ death ca. 1942, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser remained the head of household at the Summit estate. Maud soon married Bruce Walter Sanborn. The couple lived at 808 Summit until their deaths well into their old age.

From the year 1978 to 1981, the house remained vacant. In 1982 it was finally purchased by Richard Glatch Jr. Glatch split the house into condos in the late 1980s, and it has remained so ever since.

Notes

Ramsey County Historical Society, Inventory forms for Historic Sites Survey of St. Paul and Ramsey County, 1980-1983