300 Iowa River View Colonial House

Built by F.W. Chamberlin. He was General Manger for the “Opera House” and owned shares in 22 other Playhouses in the Iowa - Illinois region. This is a Colonial Georgian. A popular design in 1700 to 1780 in the original colonies. They have a lot of symmetry. Front door was in lower middle of the house with equal number of windows on either side of front door. This is a center gabled house. It was built with hand hewn bricks that came from a local brick company. They are extremely hard. Georgians were a dominate style of the English Colonists. ​