Brittain House
Photograph
Ornate clapboard home with cupola that once stood on the SW corner of Mason and Griffith Streets. The bare yard is patchy with snow. Behind the house, a building with a curved roof, possibly the back of the Ford dealership building on Culver Street, is visible.
This image was featured as History Mystery #92 with the question "Built by a lumber baron ca 1855. Where was it who were the first two families to own it?" and the
solution "Built in the 1850s by O. R. Johnson, lumber baron, and next owned by two generations of the Brittain family. It was located on the corner of Griffith and Mason where the bank parking lot is today."
2023.10.337
Digital scan
Captain R.C. Brittain house c.1868-1967
Italianate house with cupola built ca. 1868 by lumber baron O.R. Johnson, razed 1967 for a bank parking lot.
Buildings: Lost
Winthers, Sally
Digital data in CatalogIt
These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023.
11/03/2023
09/22/2024