Overview

The Baker-Emerson House is a great example of a middle-class house built in the 1890s.

• Location: 2215 Dupont Avenue North
• Neighborhood: Hawthorne

Historic profile

The Baker-Emerson House is a great example of a middle-class house built in the 1890s. The house had various owners through its early history. The three earliest residents were William W. Huntington, George L. Baker, and Carey Emerson.

Huntington, a real estate dealer, sold a few plots of land to Baker in 1885. Baker then platted the land and presumably built the house for him and his wife Mary. Baker and Huntington became partners in a real estate firm called Baker, Potter, and Company. Emerson bought this property in 1892 for him and his wife Ellen. Emerson was the president of the Bibb Broom Corn Company. All three individuals were members of the Fourth Baptist Church. Emerson was a deacon and Huntington was a charter member.

The house was designed in the Queen Anne and Eastlake style. The two-story house has an asymmetrical plan and sits on a limestone base. Most of the exterior is clad in wood clapboard, while the south elevation has a wood shingled bay. The hip and gable roofs have asphalt shingles. The primary windows are one-over-one sash with wood trim. A porch with a sloping roof is attached to the front elevation and wraps around to the south elevation.