212 Cascade Avenue, Henry L. Trotter House, 1921

A frame foursquare house with a deck-hip roof and hipped central dormer on the front and both sides. The central entrance, which features a beautiful leaded glass elliptical fanlight and sidelights, sits beneath a gabled and arched portico supported by paired classical columns. The first floor facade was originally weatherboard, but is now covered by vinyl siding; the second floor retains the original shingles. A one-story shed-roof porch sits on the west side. In 1937 Trotter added a rear two-story flat-roofed ell with sleeping porch along with a second one-story hipped-roofed ell.

Trotter and his wife Adelaide moved here from 800 S. Main Street in 1922 when Trotter was vice-president of Ideal Dry Goods Co. The property formerly included a garden at what is today 228 Cascade Avenue.

Ell – a secondary wing or extension of a building, usually at right angles to the building’s principle block.