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Form 10-300 UNITED STATE;5 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: (July 1969) NAT•IONAL PARK SER\MCE Minnesota

COUNTY: NATIONAL REG ISTER OF HIS TORIC PLACES Chisago

INVENTOR Y - NOMINAT ION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY

ENTRY NUMBER^ , , DA.TE (Type all entries — complete applicable sections) jfti I LJSS^-~~^ ' ; "

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CITY OR TOWN: Taylors Falls ,: ,'-^^^-..

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STREET AND NUMBER: CO 03 QTQ O CITY OR TOWN: STA1"E CODE

Center City Minnesota 23^

TITLE OF SURVEY: ENTR Historic American Buildings Survey (W.H.C.Folsom House & First Methodist, . -n

DATE OF SURVEY: -^934 NUMBERY o Eel Federal [ | State | | County | | Local 70 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Z s TJ M CO Library of Congress C 00 STREET AND NUMBER: m •" i •• 1 1 • . ' •' O r-Z CITY OR TOWN: S.TAT E:... CODE Washington D.C. 001 3-LVCi (Check One) D Excellent 6JD Good Q Fair 1 Deteriorated n Ruins 1 I Unexposed CONDITION (Check One) fCftec/c One)

(2J| Altered Q Unaltered CU Moved (^ Original Site DESCRIBEAngel THE s PRESENTHill isAND said ORIGINAL to (ffhave known) originally PHYSICAL APPEARANCE been a derisive term applied by a VnOr.1 flamboyant resident tdy that area clustered..arouiid^tJieJtletbodiA.t-.ChiiLch on one of the hills above_t|ie^CjC>mjii<|^^ The neighborhood Ts situace^ngfr°a™TreTatively flat BencfT^ iinla£Sd^ fr-om..,tEi!xest., of the village by a steep drop ta tJhje.. riverând Interstate Park on the east and south peri- me±ef," by—a ravine on its north edge "lEhrough" which Chisago County road #20 drops down into the business district,and by an as yet undeveloped,rocky but tree covered ridge rising steeply to the west. The neighborhood is bisected b; the remains of the old Government Road that once linked St.Paul with Lake Superior The locations of all the buildings in the district are noted on the attach id site plan. Those of significance are numbered and described below. 1. Schottmuller Brewery c. 18 5& Three story wood frame with low hipped roof Clapboard. Set into the hill for immediate access to beer storage caves. Cur rently being restored for use as store and residence. 2. Village Jail. Date unknown. One story wood frame with attic. Now used a $ ice storage house. Bars in upper window are evidence of its original use. 3.First School House and Community Center. 1852. One story. Clapboard. Wood frame. Greek Revival. Now altered to serve as village maintenance garage. Ori ginal cupola removed. Building moved from across the street. 4. W.H.C._Jjolspji^HouseL^. 1854.-55.^JTwo story, cXjiprfeoard sidedsju_MQ_od_JErame. PJ^s^jiinguished by the^^ lonÎslaaily delicate~treatment of its front porches,the Federal sjtylje_.d^£^.ll^ at the frames of the French doors opening onto the pore i-rn es, andT'TKeiouvered fan lights in the pediments. The house is otherwise Greek Revival in style. Except for the later portico at the main ent7aîc¥7a^3™ôr^ kTEcTfen and bathroom revisions,the house is essentially unaltered. Occupied by the Folsom family until its recent acquisition by the Minnesota Historical Society,it is now a museum dedicated to Folsom,one of early Minnesota's fore most lumbermen, developers, historicans, and legislators. 5. First Methodist Church,1861. Wood frame,clapboard sided on the side and rear el^vâTIo^.'To^|Tg^te7^-^ma-ll domed bell tower. The wider,flat horizontal boards appearing only on the front eTevation,perhaps to give the illusion of stone?are interrupted by four massive pilasters,tapered such that they are wide at the base than at the modest capital. The building is typical of the small n meeting houses recalled by its New England born parishioners. Unaltered excep for dropped ceiling,window revisions and new basement. One of the iines^t—exam H pies of Greek Revival architecture surviving in Minnesota. J.L.BuTiarcT was 6. Site of Taylors Falls School c. 1856. Three story brick building with bell tower,designed by J.L.Bullard. Demolished in 1961. Also site of first Chisago County buildings removed when county seat changed to Center City. 1. Levi Folsom House, 1856. Two story clapboard sided, wood frame. Greek Revival. Essentially unaltered except for substitution of smaller windows for the original French doors and the removal of the front porch. 8. Platt Walker House, c. 1860. Two story wood frame. Greatly altered. 9. Site of Chisago Seminary, c. 1850 s. Two story wood frame. Demolished 1

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Between 1840 and 1870 settlers were attracted from New England and parti cularly the forests of Maine to the timber rich St. Croix Valley* For a briefbr period it was thejflojrthern white pine .cen,ter__jp.f. the world. In a setting of rolling hills, forlnidaBle rock outcroppings and thick forests that strongly resembled their homeland, the New Englanders built villages closely resembl those they had left. The national architectural style was Greek Revival and it was equally popular in New England, but with their interest in economy tc gether with a desire for as much sunlight as possible, the Yankees tended tc I- discard the high ceilings and shaded porticoes of warmer regions and apply Grecian detail to/-structures which were otherwise Georgian or Federal in V style. The styj/e of Angel's Hill buildings is mainly the New England varia-

The buildings of Angel's Hill have an infinite variety,,ja£-de,Lail but are almost all built of solid white pine frame covered with white clapboard and trimmed with êê^riâ^.n^.ed.êgterior wood blinds. Foundations and numerous Tetaining walls lining its roadwa^"'WewTolTsTTCtCted of local traprock or sard stone. The church, while in complete harmony in material, color and design with its neighbors, dominates the district physically, socially and spirit UJ ually. The total effect is one of unity but not monotony. When the lumber supply was depleted, the economy declined as there was only agriculture and tourism to sustain the area. Angel's Hill, physically isolated from the rest of the village, was spared both the ravages of fire that destroyed the business district, and the need to replace its existing small buildings with larger ones of non-related scale and style. It sur vived relatively unchanged^Today's prosperity has allowed the district to make essential repairs and some architecturally inappropriate alterations, but the physical isolation of the neighborhood has contined to discourage such contemporary innovations as drive-ins and filling stations. While there are unquestionably important old buildings in other communi ties which individually equal or surpass in historic and architectural merit those of this district it is a handsome collection of well maintained and actively used^f.^fe^l&j-ti&s each in the proper context of its natural setting that is the/fêal sirflnifltjatiQe of Angel's Hill.

NATIONAL REGISTER FifW Years in the Northwest, W.H.C. Fc>lsom, Pioneer Press Publishing Company St?NPaul, 1888. HistoryXpf Washington County and the SIt. Croix Valley, Warner and Foote.eds. North litar Publishing Company, 1881. Minnesota\Houses-An Architectural and Historical View. Roger Kennedv. Dillon Press, Minneapolis, 1967. Taylors Falls Reporter, Taylors Falls Public Library, Taylors Falls, Minnesoi .a Taylors Fall^ Journal, Public Library, Taylors, Falls, Minnesota Greek Revival\ Building in Taylors Fall s , Datfid rierold ' Manus'cr ip t . L197ti , Public Library, Taylors Falls , Minnesota. ^

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES £ DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY ' } DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY _ OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES ———————— ——————————————————————— ——————————————————————— | CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Decrees Minutes Seconds Dexjrees Minutes .Seconds NW 45 o 24 • 40 . 92 0 3-9- 30- o " • - \ NE 45 - 24 • 40" 92 ° 39. 01- SE" 45 o 24 • . 15 .'^:c.-^a: 39- 30- <;iO >-, r'-- ,-A.\ I .A ^ sw 45 o 2L- 15- 92 ° 3g. QI. APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 90 aCF6S s^\^\ \ ^-T^^

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ORGANIZATION DATE Minnesota Society of Architects 12/1/7CU v STREET AND NUMBER: o ' 117 Main Street SE •z.

CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Minneapolis Minnesota 2^ ^Mi^MW^i^Milli^^^IMWii«»l^

As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to ther criteria .and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Rrvsetvation level of significance of this nomination is: National p.. .,, State, [X| . Local v Q s .,,

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Title Director, Minnesota Historical Society !/lslf$^^

Bate Date APR 1 1 *# V Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Minnesota NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Chisago INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY

ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) APR 1 entries) Angel' s Hill -Physica 1 Appearance (continued) 15. Patrick Fox (Fox-Dobney) House, 1852. Story and one-half wood frame. Clap board sided with wood blinds. Moved from Bench Street location in 1968, this is said to be the oldest village building standing. Good example of Greek Revival with small, square columned portico. Now located on site of stagecoach stopping house, built in 1850's and demolished in 1932.

18. Thomas Lacey House ca. 1860. Two story wood frame. Clapboard siding. Gable md faces street. French doors open from both floor levels to porches which are replacement for earlier porches. Original bargeboards removed when exterior of jpper story remodeled. Probably built by J.L.1 Bullard. .9. Hobbs House, ca. 1860, two story wood frame, clapboard siding. Main entranc ;entered on long side of the building. Greek Revival doorway and Gothic Revival jargeboards add character to otherwise undecorated structure. Altered by removal Df first floor French doors and by replacement of original front porch. 20. McKusick House, ca. 1850. Two story clapboard sided, wood frame Greek Revivil, tfoved from Stillwater, Minnesota in 1969. Currently being restored. 21. Nevers House, date unknown. Small story and one half wood frame, clapboard siging with wood blinds. Several later additions. Greek Revival with later Vic torian embellishment at front entrance. 22. Royal C. Gray House ca. 1864. Two story, clapboard siding, wood frame. Car >entier Gothic in style, rich with turned and sawn wood ornamentation. 23. Dresser-Murdock House, 1859. Two story clapboard siding, wood frame with French doors"™aF upper and lower floors of street elevation. Building is com bination of several styles having Greek Revival doorway and Gothic RevTvaT"'barge ioar-ds. The Tuscan Italiante tower lavishly decorated with stick and shingle 5tyle and pierced with round tfoeil de boeuf" windows was added together with Sastlake style front porch in 1880's by carpenter/builder Thomas Peck. 24. Soap House, date unknown. Except for the wood shed attached to the house, the only remaining out-building for the Dresser-Murdock House. Built of local Drick, the small structure was used to house the making of soap. Now in ruin- DUS state. 25. House, ca. 1860's. Two story wood frame. Moved from the Milltown section Df the village around 1900 and greatly altered. 26. Barn, date unknown. Wood frame with vertical sod siding and battens. 27. Barn, date unknown. Wood frame. 28' . Lucius Snail House, ca. 1870. Two story wood frame clapboard siding with exterior wood blinds. 29. William Dobney House, ca. 1860's. Two story wood frame, clapboard siding. ]onservative New England variation of the cube shaped bracketed Italiante house rfith low hipped roof and widow's walk. Somewhat altered at beginning of 20th cen tury both on exterior and interior. 30. House, date unknown. Two story wood frame. Greek Revival. Altered with Later addition of stucco and with revisions to door and window locations and ietail. Interior completely altered. Jl. Methodist Parsonage, date unknown. Two story wood frame, Greek Revival. Altered by addition of grey shingle siding over original clapboard and with front porch. Principle feature is handsome recessed doorway. 32. Hovey House, date unknown. Story and one half wood frame, clapboard siding, 3i-eek Revival*————— 33. House, ca. 1890. Story and one half, wood frame, clapboard sided, Greek Revival to which two story wood frame wing has been added. Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Minnesota NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM Chisaeo FOR NPS USE ONLY

ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) 1 I W2 .it entries) 3. Significance (cont.) Wellhead - wood restored. Supplied entire district above W. H. Folsom House with drinking water until 1915. .ANGEL'S ' HILI HISTORIC SITE . LIMITS

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COMMON; Angel's Hill Historic District AND/OR HISTORIC: Angel ' S Hill

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CITY OR TOWN: Taylors Falls STATE: COUNTY: oo Minnesota Chisago 025

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