Fisher House
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International House (Fisher House)
1896, Frank E. Edbrooke, Willis A. Marean. 1600 Logan (NR)
Daniels and Fisher Stores Company millionaire William Garrett Fisher favored the popular Neoclassical style for his three-story, $50,000 mansion. Willis A. Marean, then a young architect with the large Edbrooke firm, apparently did much of the work on this show home. Exterior walls are smooth sandstone with similar stone arches, cornices, and stringcourses. The distinctive two-story, semicircular entry portico on the west is topped by a balustraded balcony. The cornice of the portico wraps the living quarters above the second floor and continues as the cornice for a wide portico on the south. Wood-Work in the reception hall is walnut, mahogany, and oak with rosewood and bird's-eye maple used elsewhere. A single-story ballroom and art gallery, paneled in Argentine mahogany, join the main building on the north. Stone lions still guard the entry.
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