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35. 1223 20th Street – Gustafson House
Broadway National Register Historic District: 1998
Architectural Style: Colonial Revival, with Queen Anne influences
Construction Date: circa 1910
This Colonial Revival home was built circa 1910 for Martha and John A. Gustafson, who had opened Gustafson & Hayes, a men’s clothing store in downtown Rock Island in 1902. After John’s death in the 1920s, Martha continued to live here into the 1950s.
Queen Anne influences can also be seen through many details in this house. Unusual convex porch columns on small stone pedestals have Ionic capitals. Large turned spindles form the heavy balustrade. The roof is hipped with bell cast or flared edges. There is a square bay on the north, a round bay on the front, and a tower-like, two-story bay on the south. The many beveled and stained glass windows are magnificent and distinctive, as is the curved glass of the windows in the porch bay.
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