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37. 1038 21st Street – Greenough-Scott House
Broadway National Register Historic District: 1998
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Construction Date: 1895
Hugh and Julie Greenough built this home in 1895 as newlyweds. Hugh was a director for the Rock Island and Peoria Railroad, which was eventually absorbed by the Rock Island Lines. In 1904, Hugh took a new job in Cedar Rapids, which required the family to move. The house was then sold to the Scott family. John Scott, and his wife Amy, shared the home with his mother, Margaret, and, until his death, his father William. John served as the city attorney for Rock Island from 1899 to 1904, when he was elected state's attorney for Rock Island County. In this position, he is remembered for declining to prosecute the notorious John Looney. He later returned as city attorney and maintained a private law practice as well. The Scott family lived here until 1948.
The Scotts’ long tenure may explain the lack of changes to the exterior of the home. Nearly all of the original architectural features remain, making this an exemplary and pristine example of the towered Queen Ann-style home. The tower is hexagonal at the third story level, where it is covered with wood shingles and surmounted by a steeply pitched six-sided roof. At the lower levels, even extending to the foundation, the tower becomes a large five-sided corner bay. The wood siding is original, with narrow clapboard on the lower stories and both wood shingles and clapboard in the attic gables. This exceptionally narrow siding is typical of homes built between 1890 and 1915. The south attic gable, extending above a two-story bay window, contains a huge semicircular "demilune" or half moon window separated with delicate muntins into smaller panes. The porch railing was restored based on historic photographs.
Remarkably, even the small garage is original, or nearly so, dating from at least 1906 when it appears in Sanborn maps. It is a simple gabled structure covered with the same narrow clapboard as the house. The outstanding and vintage folding doors are an exceptional feature.
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