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Henry Sehring home

The Henry Sehring home is a
2 ½ story Queen Anne/Classical style wood clapboard structure built in 1895 by noted Joliet architect Hugo Boehme. The front façade is dominated by a large, open wrap porch which encircles a turret on the left side.

The structure has a pyramidal hip roof with dormers on all four sides. The corners of the house are framed with Classical pilasters that are fluted below the eave. Henry Sehring is the son of Frederick Sehring, a German immigrant who established a major brewery in Joliet in 1868. The remants of the limestone brewery exist just northeast of the subject site. Several other Sehring mansions also exist today, forming a cluster near the former brewery location.

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