Henry Richardi House
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Grand Victorian Bed-and-Breakfast Inn (Henry Richardi House)
1895. 402 N. Bridge St.
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(Photograph by Balthazar Korab)
In 1895, when Henry Richardi (b. 1863) bought out the Bellaire Wooden Ware Company (Richardi and Bechtold Wooden Ware Company), which was his father's business and Bellaire's primary employer, he erected across Antrim Street from the factory one of northern Michigan's finest wooden Queen Anne houses. Gables, overhangs, bays, and a square corner tower with bell-cast roof project from the boxy wooden mass of the house. Exquisite hand carving and expert carpentry abound throughout the house—in the carved capitals of the porch columns, in rows of square panels enframed by windows, in the staircase, and on and on. Bird's-eye maple finishes the living room and a different wood trims every other room. The fine craftsmanship is the product of the German woodworkers employed in the Richardi factory, who assisted in the construction of the house.
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Location: Bellaire, MichiganRegional Overviews:Styles:
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Grand Victorian Bed-and-Breakfast Inn (Henry Richardi House)", [Bellaire, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-AN1.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 420-420.
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