MacLeith House
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MacLeith House | |
| Address: | 1220 Seminary Avenue W |
| Neighborhood/s: | Hamline-Midway, Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| City/locality- State/province |
Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| County- State/province: |
Ramsey County, Minnesota |
| State/province: | Minnesota |
| Country: | United States |
| Year built: | 1915 |
| Primary Style: | Arts and Crafts/Craftsman |
| Secondary Style: | Bungalow/Bungaloid |
| Additions: | aluminum siding and new windows noted on 1/11/1982 site survey. Since that time a second story bump-out has been added to the house gaining more living space in the second story bedrooms. |
| Major Alterations: | Altered |
| Moved from Location: | no |
| Historic Function: | House/single dwelling or duplex |
| Current Function: | House/single dwelling or duplex |
| Architect or source of design: | Walter D. MacLieth |
| Builder: | James Lock |
| Material of Exterior Wall Covering: | Aluminum |
| Material of Roof: | Asphalt Shingles |
| Building Permit Number: | 68270 |
| First Owner: | Anna K. MacLeith |
(44.964518° N, 93.151917° W)
The information provided here is from the 1983 Ramsey Count Historical Society and Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission Historic Sites Survey:
Date of site visits 1/11/82 Fieldworker: C. Grant
This house is a craftsman bungalow home in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood. The house was built in 1915. The chimney style is "1 endwall brick" and the house in 1982 was listed as being in "good physical condition." The roof style is "intersecting gable" and the other significant details are "exposed purlins,brick course separating stucco and siding, heavy timber supports at corners." This woodframe house has a lower stucco exterior surfacing and would have originally had either wood siding or woodshingles, but that has been replaced or covered over with aluminum siding.
The historic sites survey lists the "period of construction as 1915" but the "date built" is given as 1916.
The architect/engineer of the house is Walter D. MacLieth (note spelling) and he resided at that time at 1403 Thomas Avenue which is in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood in St. Paul.
The builder was James Lock.
"The original owner of this house, which was built for $3,500, was Anna K. MacLeith: (note spelling of last name is different than of Walter. Mispelling? Which is correct?)
Legal description: "Block 10, Lot 1, Hersey & Woolsey Addition"
Significant site and landscape features: "Fieldstone and railroad [tie] retaining wall"
Statemnent Of Significance: "Very nice craftsman bungalow"
Level of Significance:
Local
History
Current owners have vintage photographs of the house, left with the house by original owner Anna K. MacLeith.
