1922 Hollyrood Street, Henry Ralph and Lucy Reavis Meinung House, c. 1906

A frame weatherboarded Queen Anne style house that features a hipped roof with a gable-roofed front wing at the north end. It is three bays wide and one room deep with a two-story rear gable ell and three interior chimneys. The front projection is a two-story cutaway bay with sawn brackets and pendules supporting a wood-shingled gable. The hipped-roof porch is supported by turned posts and sawn brackets spanned by a turned picket balustrade and a spindle frieze. The double-leaf entrance is topped by a transom. Constructed by Fogle Brothers Company.

Meinung was the general superintendent of Forsyth Chair Company until 1922, which in 1923 was consolidated into Forsyth Furniture Lines, Inc. (Both companies were just across South Main Street in what is today the Sunnyside/Central Terrace historic district.)

Queen Anne style (1880 -1910) – Includes a steeply pitched roof of irregular shape, usually with a dominant front-facing gable; patterned shingles; cutaway bay windows and other devices used to avoid a smooth-walled appearance (variety of claddings); and an asymmetrical facade with partial or full-width porch, usually one-story and wrapping around one side. Possible towers and/or turrets.

Spindlework – Wood details with circular cross sections, usually turned on a lathe. It could be ordered from mail order catalogues or bought at lumber yards and general stores. Often seen in Queen Anne and Victorian style structures. So-named because the decorative trim may resemble wooden thread spindles.