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

County of house: Chariton County
Location of house: 406 S. Broadway St., Salisbury
Date: circa 1903

"3. 406 South Broadway, circa 1903.
The one-and-a-half-story Queen Anne house has a northeast wrap-around front porch with a front pediment, stuccoed balustrade and stuccoed columns. Lower cross gables extend from the hipped roof on the north, east and south elevations. The irregular roofline includes dormers on the east and north and two brick chimneys. The windows are a combination of modern one-over-one double-hung sashes and a large Queen Anne picture window in the main façade. The stone foundation is coated with concrete and the roof is clad in asphalt shingles. The stucco cladding on the body of the house predates 1950. A modern single-car garage is attached to the rear of the house. The house without the garage appears in its current configuration on the 1910 Sanborn map." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

"3. 406 South Broadway, circa 1903. This house was built for Sydney and John Ownby around 1903. The Ownbys purchased a portion of this lot in 1902 from Harry Plattner, owner of the north adjacent property. W.H. Ownby was a lumber dealer, advertising his business in the 1897 Atlas as specializing in “all kinds of lumber and shelf hardware, posts, lath, lime, cement and paints.” ~ 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