The Brummall House - Salisbury, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of house: Chariton County
Location of house: 407 S. Broadway St., Salisbury
Date: circa 1898

"4. 407 South Broadway, circa 1898.
The three-story frame Queen Anne house is one of the most prominent eclectic late-Victorian houses in Salisbury and is an excellent example of the Spindlework subtype. It sits on the east side of Broadway, oriented toward the southwest corner of 5th Street and Broadway. The house’s southwest corner has a three-story octagonal tower with two ornamental friezes, a metal dome, and a finial. Turned posts with lattice spandrels support the southwest wrap-around front porch and a pediment tops the southwest porch stairs. The west façade has a three-story projecting bay, a gabled dormer, and a second-story screened porch. A three-story chamfered gable projects from the south elevation. The east elevation has a one-story kitchen extension. The house displays a variety of wall cladding materials and a profusion of ornamental details, including clapboards, fishscale shingles, pent roofs, turned spindles and a metal roof finial. The house has a stone and concrete foundation and a complex roofline clad in asphalt shingles. A single frame garage is located west of the house. The house appears in its current configuration on the 1910 Sanborn map." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"4. 407 South Broadway, circa 1898. This house was built in 1898 for Dr. J.D. and Alice Brummall for $2,000. According to family records, master carpenters Matt Hurt and John Hurry worked on the construction. Brummall, a Salisbury doctor, and his wife had two sons, Clarence and Harold. After the death of Dr. Brummall in 1928, his widow converted the house into four apartments. She lived there until her death in the 1950s and the house passed to Harold, the surviving son. According to written reminiscences by Harold Brummall, the house was the first in Salisbury to have a furnace and the third to have electric lights.6 The Brummall family owned the house until the mid-1960s." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"The Salisbury Square Historic District is a unique cluster of Victorian houses built for local business owners. The architects of the houses are unknown, but the District’s contributing buildings display a grasp of the then-fashionable features of the Queen Anne style. Despite changes to individual buildings, the historic forms and character-defining details are still present on each of the contributing houses within the District. As a collection, they enhance the Queen Anne character of the District and communicate information about the evolution of this architectural style.

"The contributing houses in the Salisbury Square Historic District represent the full range of the Victorian Queen Anne style, early to late, simple to elaborate, and small to large. The Queen Anne style was extremely popular in the Midwest during the late 1800s to about 1910, and was often used in smaller, more-rural communities such as Salisbury up to World War I, consistent with the period of construction within the District. The style came to America from England during the 1880s and quickly spread with the advent of balloon frame construction. The availability of standardized lumber and mail-order trims produced forms that moved beyond the basic cube with protruding bays, multiple gables and towers ornamented with shingles, friezes, spindles and ornamental windows." ~ NRHP Nomination Form