Michael Majerus House
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Michael Majerus House | |
 The Michael Majerus House viewed from the west-southwest | |
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| Location | 404 9th Avenue S., St. Cloud, Minnesota |
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| Coordinates | 45°33′20.5″N 94°9′35.5″W / 45.555694°N 94.159861°W |
| Area | Less than one acre |
| Built | 1891 |
| Architect | Theodore Kevenhoerster |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001564[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 5, 1978 |
The Michael Majerus House is a historic house in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1891.[2] The Michael Majerus House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its local significance in the theme of architecture.[3] It was nominated for its status as St. Cloud's finest house in Second Empire style.[2]
The Michael Majerus House is a three-story brick building on a prominent corner lot just south of downtown St. Cloud. The house has a roughly rectangular footprint, with a granite foundation. The dominant feature is a five-story tower rising over the front door.[2] The walls are red pressed brick with smooth granite windowsills.[4] Stone trim adorns the first- and second-floor walls, forming beltcourses and arched window hoods carved with intricate rosettes, scrolls, and cherub faces. Elaborate eaves support the mansard roof, which subsumes the third floor.[2]
A short staircase leads up to the double doors of the main entry, in the southwest corner of the building facing west. Directly above the entryway is a second-floor balcony of wrought-iron. A dormer projection of the mansard roof tops the balcony, decorated with a small pediment and a circular window. A square tower room rises above the roofline. It has two semicircular arched windows facing each direction, with small panels below. Scroll-sawn brackets define the tower's fifth story, consisting of a pyramidal roof with round dormer windows topped by small finials.[2]
Southeast of the main residence is a detached garage that originally served as a carriage house, with two stories and a hayloft.[2]
