Harriet F Rees House

t that time that the Keiths moved from Prairie Avenue and the house was converted to furnished rooms. In the early 1970s, it housed the Prairie House Café. The interior, however, has survived largely intact and features intricate wood mouldings and beautifully tiled fireplaces. Since 2001, the home has been extensively restored. Now isolated in its location, the Harriet Rees house was originally constructed in a row of houses. The workmanship of the façade, with its sensitively handled masonry and perfectly scaled ornament, rivals that of Richardson's Glessner house located a few hundred yards to the north. The three stories and an attic house is constructed of Bedford stone that has been completely smoothed, emphasizing the carved ornament of the façade and the beautiful masonry work of the entrance, set on a rusticated base. A great, simple arch with over-sized voussoirs shelters the entrance. To its south, a curved bay stands two stories and ends in a semicircular copper roof. A group of five arched windows light the third floor and a steep gable with a single arched window rises to a finial. A vigorous scroll of foliate carving divides the first from the second floor of the bay and is echoed in the third-floor capitals and in relief on the attic wall.