J.E. Walker house
1204 8th Street
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

J.E. Walker house
1204 8th Street
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

This property was unimproved in 1906. James F. Riley was the owner. Riley sold to J.E. Walker by 1908. Improvements were valued at $400.00 in that year indicating construction of the existing house. Walker probably was the builder; he was listed as a carpenter in 1902. Walker sold the property to H.S. Ocker in 1910.

Detached residence, rectangle with side entrance and side bay NE, one-and-a-half story, wood frame construction, first floor weatherboard, gable ends shingled, coursed rough-cut stone foundation, gable roof. Front gable porch on stone piers, rear second floor sleeping porch, 1/1 double-hung windows, glazed wooden entrance door, gable roof dormers.

Lance Rider, photographer

Baldwin City Public Library

Winter, 1988

County assessment rolls, 1898-1910
City directory, 1902-03

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