214 Stillwater Ave
Stillwater, MN 55082, USA

Gustav A. Ruehle House

This modest, Queen Anne style house was constructed in Carli and Schulenbergs Addition in 1897 for Gustav A. Ruehle. Mr. Ruehle worked as a laborer and warehouseman for the Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee & Omaha Railway. By 1930, John E. and Delam L. Roy are the primary residents of this house. Roy was employed as a machinist. The one-and-a-half-story, frame house has a limestone foundation, clapboard siding, and front gable roof that is punctuated by a tall brick chimney. The house features a one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled addition on the west elevation, one-over-one double-hung windows, and one-light fixed windows with leaded glass transoms. A one-story, hipped-roof addition located on the north elevation of the main addition was constructed prior to 1924, according to historical maps. The patterned shingles in the gables, the ornate hipped-roof porch with its turned columns and spindlework, and the leaded glass transoms windows are characteristics of the Queen Anne style that was popular in the United States in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. The current owners purchased the property in 1964 and added the one-story screen porch to the east elevation in 1976.