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Barr Terrace

Architect
Fiske & Meginnis
Year
1890
Style
Chateauesque
City
Lincoln, NE
Barr Terrace
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0
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Barr Terrace is a historic three-story row house built in 1890 for William Barr, a German immigrant who settled in Lincoln in 1861 and became a real estate investor. Designed by Ferdinand C. Fiske of the firm Fiske & Meginnis in the Châteauesque style, it was restored in 1979-1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places that same year.

the building

Materials by floor. The three brick stories sit atop a basement built of rusticated stone, with a slate mansard roof and sandstone windowsills, a layered material palette typical of the Châteauesque style.

The tourelle. A tourelle projects from the southern side of the building, a small turret characteristic of the Châteauesque vocabulary Fiske used throughout.

the style

Ferdinand C. Fiske, a Cornell-educated architect who designed many buildings across Nebraska, worked in the Châteauesque style here, giving the row house a mansard roof, rusticated stone basement, and a corner tourelle drawn from French chateau precedent.

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the architect

Ferdinand C. Fiske was a Cornell-educated architect of the firm Fiske & Meginnis who designed many buildings in Nebraska, including Barr Terrace in 1890.

significance

Barr Terrace has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 1, 1979, and was restored in 1979-1980.

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