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{{short description|Historic house in Minnesota, United States}}
{{Infobox NRHP | name =Reuben Freeman House

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| image = Freemanhouse.jpg
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| caption = Freeman's eight-gabled fieldstone house in 2008
{{Infobox NRHP
| location= 9091 Inver Grove Trail, [[Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota]]
| name = Reuben Freeman House
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| lat_minutes = 49
| image = Freemanhouse.jpg
| lat_seconds = 3
| caption = Freeman's eight-gabled fieldstone house in 2008
| lat_direction = N
| location = 9091 Inver Grove Trail, [[Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota]]
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| long_direction = W
| locmapin = Minnesota
| built = 1875
| architect = Reuben Freeman
| area =
| architecture =
| built =1875
| added = December 31, 1979
| architect= Freeman,Reuben
| refnum = 79001231<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
| architecture= No Style Listed
| added = December 31, 1979
| governing_body = Private
| refnum=79001231<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
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The '''Reuben Freeman House''' is a unique home, sporting eight [[gable]]s, that was built 1887 in [[Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota|Inver Grove Heights]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] state of [[Minnesota]]. Freeman was a [[German People|German]] immigrant farmer who collected stones from his acreage to build his coursed [[fieldstone]] house. Bottle glass adorns the masonry around the second-story windows, further proving his eccentricity.<ref name="nord">{{cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]]|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Historic Sites:Inver Grove Heights| publisher = Dakota County Historical Society| url = http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/igh.asp| accessdate =2008-02-27}}</ref>
The '''Reuben Freeman House''' is a unique home, it sports eight [[gable]]s and was built 1887 in [[Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota|Inver Grove Heights]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] state of [[Minnesota]]. Freeman was a [[German People|German]] immigrant farmer who collected stones from his acreage to build his coursed [[fieldstone]] house. Bottle glass adorns the masonry around the second-story windows, further proving his eccentricity.<ref name="nord">{{cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]]|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/nationalregister0000nord}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Historic Sites:Inver Grove Heights| publisher = Dakota County Historical Society| url = http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/igh.asp| accessdate = 2008-02-27| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080807125527/http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/igh.asp| archivedate = 2008-08-07}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 20:52, 30 May 2022

Reuben Freeman House
Freeman's eight-gabled fieldstone house in 2008
Reuben Freeman House is located in Minnesota
Reuben Freeman House
Reuben Freeman House is located in the United States
Reuben Freeman House
Location9091 Inver Grove Trail, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
Coordinates44°49′3″N 93°1′23″W / 44.81750°N 93.02306°W / 44.81750; -93.02306
Built1875
ArchitectReuben Freeman
NRHP reference No.79001231[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 31, 1979

The Reuben Freeman House is a unique home, it sports eight gables and was built 1887 in Inver Grove Heights in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Freeman was a German immigrant farmer who collected stones from his acreage to build his coursed fieldstone house. Bottle glass adorns the masonry around the second-story windows, further proving his eccentricity.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
  3. ^ "Historic Sites:Inver Grove Heights". Dakota County Historical Society. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2008.