This is a marvelous Prairie Style composition with Japanese influences. The roofline flares out at the edge giving a pagoda-like effect enhanced by the bargeboard treatment. Hupp was founder of the Hupp Motor Car Company, which manufactured the famous Hupmobile.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Robert Craig Hupp House", [Detroit, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-WN118.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 109-109.
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