This house stood at 1222 Reddour Street in the Central North Side between 1882 and the 1990s, when it was among buildings demolished for an urban renewal project on and west of Federal Street. Before demolition, it was photodocumented for the Historic American Buildings Survey as a mitigation effort. The Historic American Buildings Survey was established in 1933 to provide work for unemployed architects and photographers in documenting historic buildings across the United States. HABS is no longer an employment program, but continues as a repository for historic architectural documentation, including significant buildings that are to be demolished in the course of federally funded projects. It now has two sister programs: the Historic American Engineering Record, established in 1969, and the Historic American Landscapes Survey, which began in 2000. The house was built in the Second Empire style, shown in its mansard roof. Its interior was typical for middle-class city houses of the time. The mantel depicted is of marbleized slate with incised carving, showing Eastlake influence and typical of local construction in the 1880s. The houses window hoods also had incised carving. The earliest occupants included J.D. Nicholson, a stockbroker. In 1886 the house was home to two bookkeepers, two clerks, an architect, a draftsman, and a widow, and was probably a boarding house. Peter Krempel, the proprietor of a grocery at 1501 Federal Street, owned and lived in the house in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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