Reuben Freeman House
Encyclopedia
The Reuben Freeman House is a unique home, sporting eight gables
, that was built 1887 in Inver Grove Heights
in the U.S.
state of Minnesota
. Freeman was a German immigrant farmer who collected stones from his acreage to build his coursed fieldstone
house. Bottle glass adorns the masonry around the second-story windows, further proving his eccentricity.
Gables
Gables may refer to:* Gables, portion of walls between the lines of sloping roofs* Ken Gables , Major League Baseball pitcher* Gables, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in the United States...
, that was built 1887 in Inver Grove Heights
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 29,751 people, 11,257 households, and 7,924 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,038.8 people per square mile . There were 11,457 housing units at an average density of 400.1 per square mile...
in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
state of Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. Freeman was a German immigrant farmer who collected stones from his acreage to build his coursed fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
house. Bottle glass adorns the masonry around the second-story windows, further proving his eccentricity.