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Henry B. Babson residence, alterations, furnishings, and decoration
Purcell, Feick and Elmslie
Riverside, Illinois  [demolished]  1912, 1914

• Main residence
• Stables, 1912
• Clock, 1912
• Landscaping, 1914 (Jens Jensen, landscape architect)
• Service Buildings, 1915
• Alterations, 1923/1926 (George Grant Elmslie, architect)

The alterations to the Babson house over the years were frequent, and have several accounting entries in the commission list.  All of them are collected here for easier access.

Images

Light fixture, 1912	Andirons	Andirons
Andirons	Andirons, circa 1981	Detail, andiron

  7 images are available from the University of Minnesota digital database.

Texts

• Parabiographies entry [for Commission List 234], by William Gray Purcell

References

• Artist John W. Norton did murals for a bathroom remodel

Other Resources (launches new browser window)

The chair from the sleeping porch remodel is now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
(Click on the link and search under "Elmslie")

Courtesy Tim Loftus

Another view of the andirons as they are displayed in the Chicago Institute of Art is available on a page of P&E works at the PrairieStyles web site