Comstock House

Solomon Gilman Comstock House
Location 506 8th Street South
Moorhead, Minnesota
Coordinates 46°52′9″N 96°46′5″W / 46.86917°N 96.76806°W / 46.86917; -96.76806Coordinates: 46°52′9″N 96°46′5″W / 46.86917°N 96.76806°W / 46.86917; -96.76806
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built 1882–3
Architect Kees & Finch
Architectural style Queen Anne, Other, Queen Anne-Eastlake
MPS Clay County MRA (AD)
NRHP reference # 74001011[1]
Added to NRHP December 30, 1974

The Comstock House is a historic house museum in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States. It is the restored home of U.S. Congressman and businessman Solomon Comstock with its original furnishings.The house is run by a partnership between the Minnesota Historical Society and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County.[2]

The house has two stories and eleven rooms and was designed by architecture firm Kees and Fisk. Construction was completed between 1882 and 1883, and the architecture is a combination of Queen Anne style and that of English designer Charles Eastlake.[3]

In 1965 George and Frances Comstock gave the house to the Minnesota Historical Society, and starting in 1976, the house was restored to its original late 19th-century style.[3]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Comstock House". mnhs.org. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Moorhead's Comstock A Story of Restoration" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-31.
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