619 SE First Street

1908 Four Square
Architect: Frank Schlotter

The American Foursquare, or the Prairie Box, was a post-Victorian style that shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. The boxy foursquare shape provided roomy interiors for homes on small city lots. The simple, square shape also made the Foursquare style especially practical for mail order house kits from Sears and other catalog companies.

American Foursquare houses usually have these features:

• Simple box shape
• Two-and-a-half stories high
• Four-room floor plan
• Low-hipped roof with deep overhang
• Large central dormer
• Full-width porch with wide stairs
• Brick, stone, stucco, concrete block, or wood siding

(http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/Foursquare.htm)