804 Olive St W
Stillwater, MN 55082, USA

Frank Lund House

This small house was constructed circa 1882 by Frank Lund. Lund was a carpenter at the Stillwater Manufacturing Company, one of the largest home builders in the 1880s and 1890s in Stillwater. In 1890, newlyweds Peter and Mary Ryhn purchased the small house. Mr. Ryhn was the engineer and chief custodian at the old Stillwater senior high school from 1888 until his death in 1940 (Brent Peterson, Stillwater Gazette, no date). Mrs. Ryhn continued to live in the house until her death in 1954. Howard Mason owned the property in the late 1950s. The current residents have lived in the house since 1966. The one-and-a-half-story, frame building, with its stuccoed foundation, elegant brick chimney, tall and narrow one-over-one windows, and clapboard siding is covered by a cross gable roof. The house features Queen Anne style influences including the fishscale-shaped wood shingles in the front gable end and tall and narrow one-over-one windows. An enclosed porch is located on the southeast corner of the house. Based on its form and materials, the two-story, front-gabled ell on the rear elevation appears to have been constructed in the 1920s. A one-story, gable-roofed enclosed rear porch, which was originally open, was added by Mr. Ryhn in 1928.