506 Pine St W
Stillwater, MN 55082, USA

Hugh D. Campbell House

This grand Queen Anne style residence was constructed circa 1890. The two-story, frame house has a limestone foundation, clapboard siding, a hipped roof, and one-over-one double-hung windows with transom windows above. The steeply pitched roof, irregular roofline with a dominant front facing gable, patterned shingles, sunburst patterns, and the wraparound porch with turned columns and spindlework in the railing and frieze are characteristics of the Queen Anne style. The house features many dormers of different shapes and sizes including hipped and pedimented front gable with a small window. A highly ornamented, one-and-a-half-story carriage house is located in the rear yard. The carriage house has a limestone foundation, a jerkinhead roof with a central cupola, front gable dormers, one-light fixed windows, and double-leaf sliding glass doors. Both the house and carriage house have been converted into apartments. It is unknown who constructed this house. According to the 1908-1909 city directory, Hugh D. Campbell, the treasurer of the Eclipse Sawmill Company, lived in the house with his wife Minnie and their son Hugh B. who was a student. Mr. Campbell added the one-story porch on the rear elevation in 1909. By 1910, Campbell owned his own lumber business at 113 South Main Street. In 1912, Campbells business moved to 226 East Myrtle Street. When Campbell was elected to serve as a Stillwater councilman in 1917, he, his wife, and their daughter, Dorothy M. Campbell, lived in the house. According to the 1927-1928 city directory, Minnie Campbell, Hugh D. Campbells widow, was the primary resident and continued to inhabit the house through the 1930s.