William Black House/ M. D. Madden House

William Black House/ M. D. Madden House, 265 33rd Avenue North; 1873; William Black, Builder.This frame house of Gothic Revival Style crowns the top of the hill at the end of North Second Street. A reservoir of the water company in Lyons once also shared the hill. A small, frame barn with hip roof and cupola sits to the rear of the property. Porches on the south side of the house have been removed. William Black, a contractor who also built steamboats, built this structure for his home.