\nLocation: 312 Cooper St., East Hancock
\nBuilt: ca 1900<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Pearce designed this house for his mother, Emma Jane Pearce, and his siblings.1<\/sup>\u00a0After his mother died in 1908, his unmarried sisters, Amy and Rhoda Pearce, inherited the house and continued to live there for the rest of their lives.2<\/sup>\u00a0Neither Amy nor Rhoda worked outside the house, so they rented rooms, sometimes to MTU students, for additional income.3<\/sup>\u00a0The house was owned by the Pearce family until 1949 and is still a private residence.<\/p>\n This shingle-style house is two-and-a-half stories tall. The wood frame is clad with shingles; a beltcourse divides the stories. The hip roof has a cross gable as well as a large gable dormer on the east side. In the front gable, the eave boards have a flourish and traces of ornament. In the peak of the gable, there is a small bracketed oriel. Below it are four banded windows on the second floor. On the east side, the exterior chimney is constructed of rough-faced, coursed Jacobsville sandstone up to the eaves, then brick above. Also on the east side is a one-story semicircular bay window.<\/p>\n