Summit Hill House Tour #4

This house on Grand Avenue was built in 1914 and has been given a whole-house remodeling.

Summit Hill House Tour #2

"The self-guided house tour has been held every other year for the past 38 years by the Summit Hill Association to promote the neighborhood as a great place to live and to help raise money for the SHA.  This one was designed by Clarence H. Johnston for Oliver T. Crosby, co-founder of American Hoist and Derrick Company, and it was built in 1900 with a Kasota stone exterior, steel beams and masonry walls."
Credit: Villager (local newspaper)

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

Kudos! -- ABC WEDNESDAY "K"

KUDOS to homeowners who opened their homes to the community for a recent house tour.
KUDOS to the family who have kept and maintained this home for several generations.
KUDOS to the current owner who has landscaped it magnificently.

This 1884 Queen Anne/Tudor Revival home was built for the current owner's great grandfather, John D. O'Brien.  It was the first home in a residential development that O'Brien christened Crocus Hill. The landscaping is designed by the owner, a local garden expert, who regularly writes a gardening newsletter, and who has recently published a book, Remembering Smell, describing her loss of that important sense, and who fortunately but gradually recovered after several traumatic months. Lucky for her as a professional gardener! I, incidentally, taught two of her girls when I was still teaching in a local high school here in St. Paul.

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