520 Court Thomas Hedge Jr. House

Thomas Hedge Jr (1844 – 1920, graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1861, Yale College in 1867, and Columbia College Law School, New York City, in 1869; was admitted to the bar in New York in 1869 and commenced practice in Burlington. Served as a private during the Civil War in Company E and as second lieutenant in Company G, One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in 1864 and 1865; resumed the practice of law in Burlington, Iowa; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907)

The house was built in 1873 it is a 2 story brick home in an early Italianate style with stone lintels. The main portion of the building is rectangular with an off center doorway, a set back projection on the west side with another entry and a 2 story bay on the east side. The entryway has double doors with transom. Below the hip roof, the large entablature includes paired pendant eave brackets, dentil work and monitor windows in the frieze. The current porch is a small pediment portico supported by 2 narrow columns. The back porch is of the same style. Stone steps led to the sidewalk from the south side main entry through the limestone retaining wall which becomes a free standing garden wall on the west and north sides. The European larch in the east side yard is an old specimen tree dating before the turn of the century.