Location: 2130 S. Prairie
Occupants: Thomas Murdoch
Life Span: 1890-1933
Architect: Henry Ives Cobb
The Thomas Murdoch house at 2130 Prairie Ave. was the last of Cobb’s residences to display the influence of Richardsonian Romanesque. Set on the usual battered foundation, the house walls are of a random ashlar, but the stone is smooth rather than rock-faced. Paired columns support the customary corner porch, but the openings are trabeated rather than arched. Separated from the top of the corner porch by a rectangular window, a sloped roof comprises one side of a gable facing the side yard. Beyond the gable-topped walls, triple window with two transoms lights the side elevation. The rest of the house is semi-circular in plan terminated above the third story in a conical roof. Ornament is limited to a low relief frieze topped with a modestly carved string course. Smaller scaled versions of the porch columns flank the third story windows.
- Empty lot of 2130 Prairie Avenue
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
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