Edgar Backus Schermerhorn House
Galena, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The Edgar Backus Schermerhorn House is a Queen Anne style house at 803 E. 5th St. in Galena, Kansas, built circa 1895 for Edgar Backus Schermerhorn, a wealthy businessman who owned many of the area's lead and zinc mines. Designed by Anderson & Strong, the brick house features a porch along its full front, a hipped roof with cross gables, and imported English woodwork in six types of wood. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 1989.
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- Built
- Type
- house
- Materials
- brick
- Heritage
- listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Galena, United States
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