H.H. Everist House, Prairie School residence in Sioux City, United States.
The H.H. Everist House is a Prairie School residence in Sioux City that features strong horizontal lines, bands of windows, and decorative terra cotta details. The three-story structure has an irregular floor plan and is topped with broad, overhanging hipped roofs clad in tiles.
This residence was constructed between 1916 and 1917 by builder M.N. Hegg under the direction of architect William L. Steele. The property received National Register of Historic Places listing in 1983.
The house takes its name from H.H. Everist, founder of L. G. Everist Inc. and Western Contracting Corporation, who commissioned it as his family residence. It remains a single-family home rather than a museum, so the Prairie School design is seen from the street and from the grounds.
The house sits at 37 McDonald Drive in Sioux City on a property of less than one acre. A drive-in garage that was completed in 1920 provides vehicle access to the site.
The 1920 additions—a drive-in garage and landscaping—were finished three years after the house itself, showing that the site was planned in stages. The terra cotta bands serve several jobs at once: belt courses, chimney parapets, coping and trim.
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