Richard Light House

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by Katie Torrey

Architect: Charles Archibald Pearce
Location: 308 Harris St., East Hancock
Built: 1900

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Light House. Photograph by A. K. Hoagland, 2007.

Pearce designed this house for Richard and Catherine Light. Richard was a travel agent and commissioner. This house originally had a tower on the west side, which was later replaced by a dormer. The Light family owned this house until 1921 and it is still a private residence.1

This two-and-a-half-story house, now covered in vinyl siding, shows some signs of the Classical Revival and the shingle styles. The hip roof has a prominent cross gable with cornice returns and a large lunette in the gable. Below it is a two-story bay window. At the right front (southeast) corner is a large round two-story bay with flat roof. At the southwest corner a thick stone pier marks the recessed entrance. On the west side is a one-story bay window.

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Pearce’s ad, showing the Light House before alterations. From Our Boys in the Spanish-American War: A Souvenir, Illustrated (privately printed, 1900).

Buildings by Charles Archibald Pearce in the Copper Country

Notes

  1. Alexander, East Hancock Revisited, 25.