122 Burr Oak Avenue Northeast
Chatfield, MN, USA

National Register of Historic Places - Milo White House (Hazelwood;White House)

Statement of Significance:

The Milo White House is significant as the architecturally elaborate house of Milo White (1830-1913), prominent citizen of Chatfield, Minnesota, state senator during the sessions 1872-76 and 1881, and United States Congressman from 1883 to 1887. White's house, also known as Hazelwood, reportedly was built 1883-84 (conflicting evidence suggests 1877), as White entered the United States Congress. A Massachusetts native. White had been a Minnesota resident since 1855 and became a prosperous regional businessman. At the time of his death in 1913 he was the city's oldest living settler. His home is among the best and largest representatives of the Queen Anne style in Chatfield, a city of numerous fine houses. Gebhard and Martinson in their Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota points out that the White House is an unusually embellished and unrestrained version of the Queen Anne style expressed in a brick dwelling.