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Brookings County Courthouse, new building, $ 126.000

This building replaced a two-story wooden structure which had served as the courthouse since 1885. Built by J. B. Nelson Construction company and designed by architects C. E. Bell, Tyrie and Chapman, the Courthouse is of limestone in the Renaissance Revival style. A large cupola is centered on the top of the building and beneath the cornice are stone modillions. Inside, the four types of marble are used for embellishment. The walls of the rotunda feature paintings of the seals of the United States and South Dakota.

Dexter Bundy, Grain Buyer

Dexter & Maud Bundy Local grain buyer Dexter Bundy was the first owner of this fine example of late Queen Anne. All the important stylistic features are present-wrap-around porch, tower, two story projecting bays, cross gable roof line. The decorative treatments include: cove-shaped shingles, cutaway corners embellished with bracketed eaves, and art glass in some of the windows. It is also on a rose-colored quartzite foundation.

720 6th Avenue

This simple frame structure was constructed by P. J. Bergeim as his private residence in 1897. Professor N. E. Hansen purchased this home as his residence in 1898. Hansen, Professor of Horticulture & Forestry at South Dakota State College, began his duties here in 1895. Beginning in 1894 & throughout his career, he studied Horticulture in Europe, Russia, China & Asia under Department of Agriculture experiments to find new plants & fruits suited to the cold & dry plains of the Northwest. Hansen was responsible for bringing several varieties of seeds & plants to America, including alfalfa, clover & several fruits & trees. Highlights of the home include the decorative bargeboard, the ornamentation on the dormer & the fish scale cladding on the gables. Originally an open porch was framed by a spindled railing.

715 6th Avenue

According to a April 18, 1907 newspaper article B. T. Green was makings plans to build a home on the Gagel property. Recognized as one of the foremost physicians & surgeons of eastern South Dakota. Dr. B. T. Green began his practice of medicine here in January of 1904 & continued until February of 1931 when Dr. Myron Tank bought his practice. Green's national affiliation included serving as U.S. pension examiner & as a member of the Clinic Congress of Surgeons of North America. Stylistically the home is a generic South Dakota clapboard, frame structure. Its outstanding features are the south facade gambrel-roofed dormer inset with unique screened porch, with a similar screened porch inset in the gable end of the gambrel roof on the west facade.

728 6th Avenue

According to property transfer records, C. G. Peterson acquired this property on May 28, 1894. Judging from the large increase in value of the property at the time he re-sells it, Peterson apparently built this home in 1894. Peterson first settled in Richland township in 1879 & farmed there until he moved to Brookings in 1894. His residency in the city was short lived since he moved to Elkton in 1898. Stylistically the house is a subtle example of the Queen Ann style with the turret, the clapboard & fish scale textures on the facade, & the lovely open porch framed with turned spindles & post reflective of Eastlake ornamentation.

804 6th Avenue

This Neo-Classical home was constructed in 1902 for Farmers National Bank President W. A. Caldwell, a prominent citizen in the early development of Brookings. Caldwell was a sponsor of the New Century Building on Main Street & a partner in a hardware & implement firm. Active in public service, he served as a city alderman, school board member & county commissioner. The structure is significant as an example of turn of the century Neo-Classical architecture with its pedimented portico supports by ionic columns, & decorated modillion & dentils beneath the eaves. Converted in 1929 to seven apartments. The multi family dwelling was renovated in 1986 to its restrained elegance.

729 6th Avenue

Peter O. Peterson family occupied this Victorian eclectic residence the week of Oct. 18, 1898. It was built by the contracting firm of Bergeim & Anderson, with the interior & exterior finishing by J.R. Post. P.O. Peterson came to America in 1852 & settled in Brookings County in 1879 as an Aurora township homesteader, representing one of the oldest Brookings County settlers. He was a farmer and served as County Register of Deeds in the 1880's. The latter part of the decade he became a partner with Judge J.O. Andrews in the real estate & loan business. The home is typical of South Dakota eclectic construction, with Victorian details including decorative bargeboard and fish scaling. Originally the home was graced with a wrap around porch decorated with turned spindles & posts.

Second First Presbyteriuan Church Building started, $18,300

1900—First Presbyterian Church. The Presbyterian Congregation spent $18,300 constructing this brick church. It replaced an earlier, much smaller, 1885 structure. Described as a Free Form Gothic Revival, the church features a rusticated stone foundation, brick walls, buttressed towers, and tar roof. Classrooms and office were added in 1967 and extensive remodeling of the sanctuary occurred in 1973.

St. Paul Episcopal Church Parsonage

This home owned by the Episcopal Church and used for offices, defies style definition. The rounded arches above the windows on the east side and the segmental arches in the facade suggest the Italianate style. The bricks are laid in Flemish bond-header (narrow end of brick) and then stretcher (long side of brick). A row of bricks was placed on end to create a belt course at the foundation line. The hipped roof with dormers and the door placed to the right of center are outside the Italianate framework. Most likely the owner or builder just constructed what pleased and functioned for the family.

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