William Lyon and Annabel Hubbard Phelps House/Langdon and Amanda J. Lester Hubbard House, “Lakeside”
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Seven Gables (William Lyon and Annabel Hubbard Phelps House/Langdon and Amanda J. Lester Hubbard House, “Lakeside”)
1882. Pioneer Rd., west of Huron City Rd.
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(Photograph by Roger Funk)
This large farmhouse is the third Hubbard residence to occupy the site on a bluff overlooking the lake; the first two were destroyed in the Great Fires of 1871 and 1881. A steeply pitched roof with bargeboards covers the present picturesque house and pointed-arch windows pierce the gable ends. As the house of Langdon Hubbard and his wife, Amanda (1842–1869), the building was known as “Lakeside”; William Lyon Phelps later changed the name to Seven Gables after Hawthorne's book by the same name. The house's romantic decoration makes it a centerpiece of the complex.
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Location: Port Austin, MichiganRegional Overviews:Materials:Parent Entry: Huron City Museums (Pioneer Huron City)
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Seven Gables (William Lyon and Annabel Hubbard Phelps House/Langdon and Amanda J. Lester Hubbard House, “Lakeside”)", [Port Austin, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-HU3.3.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 357-357.
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