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Fred Walsh Home

The Fred Walsh Home is a 2 story brick Prairie style structure designed and built by Joliet architect Rudolph Hoen in 1920. An asymmetrically placed open front porch supported on brick piers dominates the first floor. The front entry door is set slightly east of center, and includes a single pane fan light transom and sidelight motif common to the Colonial Revival style. The second floor is visually separated by a concrete string course, which creates a long band common to the Prairie style. The house is defined by window units consisting of a central fixed window flanked by single-pane casement windows as the common window type. The house is topped with low profile original green glazed French tile roof with a central dormer. Mr. Walsh was a prominent real estate developer on the Joliet area perhaps best known as the developer of the Louis Joliet Hotel in downtown Joliet .

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