Enoch Stott 1898
Enoch Stott House
Built-in 1898 in the Greek Revival style, Enoch Stott and his wife Emma Beal Stott erected the 2,600-square-foot home at the prominent corner of Kansas Street and 4th Street.
The Stott and Son manufacturing buildings were just a block away on the corner of 3rd Street and Franklin Street.
Stott began his manufacturing work making blankets in 1901 and made his fortune as an awning and mitten manufacturer, with Stott and Son ultimately rising to lead the mitten manufacturing industry in the United States in the early 1900s. Stott also rose to local prominence, ultimately running for local elected office. Stott and Son was a business founded by the whole family in 1908 with Enoch, Emma Beal, and Harry Stott all listed as founders and on the registered Board of Directors. In 1909 Stott also incorporated the Stott Manufacturing Company as President with William Hayes Laird as Vice President and fellow prominent Winonans William Hayes Laird, P.E. Baumgartner, John Dietze, and C.A. Boalt serving as the Board of Directors.
While Stott managed the business, Mrs. Beal chaired and hosted “Chains of Teas” in the receiving parlor of the house to raise money for local parks and playgrounds, resulting in $400 in 1917. She was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and other social and philanthropic pursuits.
Enoch and Emma Stott moved from the house into 103 W. 6th Street following Mr. Stott’s retirement in 1919. Mr. Stott passed away in 1923 in the new house on 6th Street. Mrs. Stott passed away in 1933. Both are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Winona.
The house itself is a two-and-a-half story, front-gabled home in the Greek Revival style, featuring modest elements of that style. The dual porches fronting 4th Street and Kansas Street feature prominent brackets, strong triangular pediments, and detailed entablature typical of the style. The entablature features dentil molding recessed in porch pediments and prominently exposed above the second story.
Originally, the full facade porch front 4th featured round Doric order columns. The porch was rebuilt in the 1990s with updated square columns.
The interior of the house is well-appointed in the Eastlake style, featuring excellent examples of craftsmanship.
The hardware throughout the house is the Marquise line from the historic Norwalk Lock and Hardware Company.
The primary entrance to the home features a wide quartersawn white oak door. The entry vestibule floor is made of the original decorative tile and the walls still feature the original oilcloth wallpaper dado.
The main foyer of the house features a cove-vaulted ceiling with decorative painted scrollwork and brass-plated, hand-blown gas and electric light fixtures. There is a raised sitting area with a built-in cabinet immediately to the west when entering. Two square fluted pilasters and one fluted round column frame half-turn primary staircase. The pilasters and column feature egg and dart entablature. A cozy built-in reading nook is nestled in the curves of the staircase. The newel posts and built-in reading nook feature Eastlake carved details. A powder room with an original stone sink and faucets is nestled beneath the last rise of the stairs.
Immediately to the east of interest is a five-foot pocket door that opens into the receiving parlor. A milk glass light fixture hangs from the ceiling. A north-facing picture window looks out on the front porch. The room is built in the typical Eastlake style with quartersawn oak flooring on the perimeter and broad fit boards in the center.
Large double pocket doors open to the living room which features three bay windows. A double mantle hangs over the enameled brick fireplace which features a brass fireplace cabinet door. The living room features a Victorian-speaking tube that connects to the primary bedroom located directly above for ease of communication. Gallery board adorns the walls. A five-foot quartersawn oak pocket door opens back to the foyer. The room is built in the typical Eastlake style with quartersawn oak flooring on the perimeter and broad fit boards in the center.
Large double pocket doors open to the dining room which features substantial built-in glass-front cabinets and oak doors with paired window seats and coved molding. The room features a full oak floor and currently features a 1930s Amstrong’s No. 4725 Quaker Rug beneath a silk rug. The secondary entryway opening onto Kansas Street enters this room from beneath a pedimented porch roof. A plate shelf runs along the northern and western walls.
A wide swinging butler’s door opens into the kitchen from the dining room. The kitchen features the original icebox from Waterloo, Iowa along the southern wall. The original butler’s pantry built in is along the easterly wall. Original maple floors run through the kitchen to the servant’s staircase. The kitchen features a Victorian speaking tube as well as an electronic servant summoning system connected to the servant’s bedroom upstairs. The Stotts advertised for new house help periodically in the local paper every few years.
Proceeding up the servant’s staircase opens to an intimate back of the house with a small bedroom with a walk-in closet and two hallway closets. The small bedroom features a bell to ring for help. The floors are painted fir. Gallery board adorns the walls.
Proceeding from the back of the house opens to the main upstairs hallway, which features maple flooring and two hallway closets. Along the south wall of the house is the full bathroom, including a clawfoot tub and built-in, fitted wardrobe. The bathroom is clad in five-foot wainscoting.
Adjoining the primary full bath is a bedroom that features a painted fir floor and a walk-in closet with a built-in, fitted wardrobe. Original gas and electric wall sconces adorn the walls of this room.
An exterior door opens from the bedroom to the sleeping porch, added post-1917 over the single-car garage. The sleeping porch features east, south, and west-facing windows that can recess into the wall behind the wainscoting. The sleeping porch features a painted wood floor and formerly was outfitted with a vented potbelly stove for heating in colder months.
Moving north along the main upstairs hallway, the primary bedroom is located east and adjoins the northern wall of the former bedroom. The primary bedroom features a pine floor in the Eastlake style with fir boards in the center and three bay windows. There is a glass and metal chandelier surrounded by a ceiling medallion. The west wall has the connected Victorian speaking tube to the living room downstairs as well as an electric summoning button to the back of the house bedroom. A walk-in closet with a built-in, fitted wardrobe serves this room. Wall sconces also light the room, including one original gas and electric sconce.
The northeast bedroom features oak floors in the Eastlake style with fir boards in the center. It features a walk-in closet with a built-in, fitted wardrobe.
The northern bedroom features pine flooring and a walk-in closet with painted floor. Original gas and electric wall sconces adorn the walls. A glass chandelier lights the room. Gallery board runs along the walls.