819 2nd St S
Stillwater, MN 55082, USA

Thomas Shattuck House

This simple, one-and-a-half-story Folk Victorian house was built circa 1880 for Samuel C. Norton. The frame building has a limestone foundation, clapboard siding, two-over-two double-hung windows, a front gable roof, and one-story projecting bays on the side elevations. The house features a full-width front porch with a hipped roof that was modified in the early twentieth century with square columns and by adding dentil work under the eaves. The vernacular house originally had a one-story ell attached to the rear of the house, with porch on the south elevation. By 1910, this was enlarged to the two-story rear addition that is visible today. After 1956, a narrow, two-story, front gable addition was built on the rear elevation. The addition respects the design, scale, and materials of the original building and has a smaller profile so that it is not visible from the street. Soon after Samuel C. Norton built the house, he sold the property to Stillwater policeman Thomas Shattuck and his wife Hannah. According to the 1894-1895 city directory, the Shattucks son, Francis, who was a lumberman, also resided in the house. By 1910, Thomas had passed away, and Hannah was living in the house with her son James I., an oiler with the Big Diamond Milling Company. James, who later worked in the auto repair business, lived in the house through the 1920s.