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Jun 01, 1979
Jacob Bringgold House
Description: The Jacob Bringgold House is located on the north side of 2nd St, SW, to the west of 2nd Ave. SW in Pine Island City. The Jacob Bringgold House is a 2-and-a-half-story, wood-frame house in the Queen Anne style. It consists of a main section measuring 25 by 27 feet on the first floor (but one bay narrower on the upper floors), a wing projecting one bay out from its northwest corner, and a rear addition measuring 26 by 19% feet. The house has a cross-gabled roof with its principal end oriented to the street. Its facade is two bays wide on the first floor, but only one bay wide on the second. For fenestration, it has a double sash-and-transom window on the first floor, a paired double-hung windows on the second floor, and a pair of eyebrow windows in the gable end. The house has such typical Queen Anne style features as: an open porch wrapping around the southeast sides of the main section, with turned posts, scroll-sawn spandrels, spindle-work portieres, spindle-supported balustrades, and a gable over the doorway; gable ends with fish-scale shingles and ornate fretwork filling the triangle at the roof peak; and a one-story, three-sided bay window projecting from the east end of the east wing. Significance: The Jacob Bringgold House is significant both for its association with Jacob Bringgold, Sr., the first cheese maker in Pine Island City and for its representing the type of residence that the prosperous inhabitants of southeastern Minnesota towns were building by the end of the 19th century. As dairying replaced wheat-growing as the principal form of agriculture in the region, such industries as cheese-making emerged to process the output of the farms. The city of Pine Island, in the southeast corner of Goodhue County, grew to be the leader of the industry, earning the title of "the cheese center of Minnesota" through the 30-odd factories operating in its vicinity by the 1930s. Jacob Bringgold Sr was one of a number of Swiss Immigrants who introduced the art of cheese-making to the area, and he is credited with being the first person to produce cheese in Pine Island when he moved there in 1889.
Jacob Bringgold House
Description: The Jacob Bringgold House is located on the north side of 2nd St, SW, to the west of 2nd Ave. SW in Pine Island City. The Jacob Bringgold House is a 2-and-a-half-story, wood-frame house in the Queen Anne style. It consists of a main section measuring 25 by 27 feet on the first floor (but one bay narrower on the upper floors), a wing projecting one bay out from its northwest corner, and a rear addition measuring 26 by 19% feet. The house has a cross-gabled roof with its principal end oriented to the street. Its facade is two bays wide on the first floor, but only one bay wide on the second. For fenestration, it has a double sash-and-transom window on the first floor, a paired double-hung windows on the second floor, and a pair of eyebrow windows in the gable end. The house has such typical Queen Anne style features as: an open porch wrapping around the southeast sides of the main section, with turned posts, scroll-sawn spandrels, spindle-work portieres, spindle-supported balustrades, and a gable over the doorway; gable ends with fish-scale shingles and ornate fretwork filling the triangle at the roof peak; and a one-story, three-sided bay window projecting from the east end of the east wing. Significance: The Jacob Bringgold House is significant both for its association with Jacob Bringgold, Sr., the first cheese maker in Pine Island City and for its representing the type of residence that the prosperous inhabitants of southeastern Minnesota towns were building by the end of the 19th century. As dairying replaced wheat-growing as the principal form of agriculture in the region, such industries as cheese-making emerged to process the output of the farms. The city of Pine Island, in the southeast corner of Goodhue County, grew to be the leader of the industry, earning the title of "the cheese center of Minnesota" through the 30-odd factories operating in its vicinity by the 1930s. Jacob Bringgold Sr was one of a number of Swiss Immigrants who introduced the art of cheese-making to the area, and he is credited with being the first person to produce cheese in Pine Island when he moved there in 1889.
Jun 01, 1979
Posted Date
Jul 01, 2022
Historical Record Date
Jun 01, 1979
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places
