This monumental brick Beaux-Arts classical house, painted white, stands high on a bluff above the street near the west edge of Quality Hill. The pediment of the giant-order Ionic portico contains an abundance of flowery decorations surrounding a shield, all executed in terra-cotta. Paul Robinson, who built the house, was vice president of the Union National Bank, described earlier.
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