Stephen and Mary Ann Doyle House

711 S. First St.

In 1871, Stephen and Mary Ann Doyle had this house built. Doyle, a riverman, took out a $208 mortgage from Hersey, Bean & Brown, a sawmill and lumber company, to partially pay for construction costs. The Doyle’s resided in this house with their three children and Mary Anne’s mother until 1880. A deed was never recorded for the Doyle’s property and Fayette Marsh reclaimed the property around 1874 and sold the house to William Stein (Donald Empson, The East Half of the Churchill, Nelson & Slaughter Addition Residential Area, 2003:32). Stein, who owned a jewelry store at 108 South Main Street, owned the house through the mid-1880s. This one-and-a-half-story, Folk Victorian house features clapboard siding, one-over-one double-hung windows, and a front gable roof with decorative shingles in the gable. In addition to the full-width front porch, there is a one-story rectangular bay window with a mansard roof on the south elevation. The house features details evocative of the Queen Anne style, including the full-width porch with a mansard roof and the decorative woodwork in the front gable. Based on the style of these elements, they were most likely added after the building’s original construction, possibly around 1890. Over time, the front and rear porches have been enclosed as screen porches.

— Research by The 106 Group for the City of Stillwater's Heirlooms Home and Landmark Sites Program