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Stillwater Historic Homes Tour Features Brick Houses
Brick houses made with Stillwater-crafter bricks featured in historic home tour event.
The Stillwater Historic Homes tour is on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost of the tickets are $15 each.
Part of the tour will feature brick homes.
"Almost all of Stillwater’s brick homes were built in the brief time period that the brick kiln was in operation. He could see the river from the top room in the tower," according to a press release from the Washington County Historical Society.
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The tour will include The Austin Jenks House, which was constructed in 1880 locally-made bricks. Jenks was a river pilot engaged in rafting logs and later owned his own steamboats, and late was a director at several local banks.
The press release described the Jenks home:
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The tall windows and corner tower of the Jenks home, are typical of the Italianate villas style popularized starting in the 1860s. A decorative character is established by a frenzied collection of 1870s Eastlake woodwork that hops from cornice to bracket to porch. The porches are original. The A Gothic spirit also seeps out from the swayed cornice of the tower, the steep roofs and the fanciful hammer trusses that dress up the main gables.
