Walnut-Dollison Historic District, Jewell-Baldwin House, 913 East Walnut Street, Springfield, Greene County, MO

Significance: Built in 1902-03 by speculator J.B. Montgomery, this 2-1/2 story frame house was first occupied by newspaperman Harry S. Jewell, owner of the Springfield Leader. In 1916 it was sold to Winfred M. Baldwin, vice president of Rogers & Baldwin Hardware, and has remained in family hands since. Featuring an asymmetrical massing and picturesque roofline and relatively muted ornamentation, the house represents a transition from Victorian ostentatiousness to neoclassical austerity. It has been altered little and maintained well and is in virtually original condition today - one of the most handsomely crafted and proportioned of the upper middle class dwellings in the Walnut-Dollison Historic District.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-107

Survey number: HABS MO-1252-FF

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1933 - 1970

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