Sadie C. Pearce House
609 8th Street
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

Sadie C. Pearce House
609 8th Street
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

This property was unimproved in 1898; the assessed value was only $50.00. By 1902 the value had increased to $300.00 indicating construction of the existing house. Sadie Pearce was the owner. She was listed as the widow of George J. Pearce residing with daughters Edith and Stella on Eight Street near Grove in that year. By 1910 Alice D. Porter, a teacher at Baker University, owned the property.

Detached residence, square plan with asymmetrical entrance, rear addition above screened porch, two stories, wood frame and weatherboard,rough-cut coursed stone foundation, truncated pyramidal roof. Hipped front porch on turned posts. 1/1 double-hung windows, bay window SSE, interior brick chimney. Modern shutters second floor.

Dale Nimz, photographer

Baldwin City Public Library

Winter, 1988

County assessment rolls, 1898-1914
City directory, 1902-03

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