Workingmen's Houses, Michael Sullivan House, 383 South Locust Street, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Significance: Built in 1881 by laborer Michael Sullivan, this two-story frame house is the most architecturally sophisticated and least altered of several similarly scaled and configured workingmen's dwellings built along this section of Southern Avenue (now South Locust Street) at the south periphery of Dubuque in the 1870s and 1880. Although neither Sullivan nor subsequent owner William Holmberg appear to have played formative roles in Dubuque's history, the property is noteworthy for its exceptional continuity of ownership. While nearby houses passed through numerous hands, this building housed only two families for almost one hundred years from its construction in 1881 until 1975.
Survey number: HABS IA-159-N
Building/structure dates: 1881 Initial Construction