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Exactly who built this impressive house is uncertain. It was constructed in a Queen Anne style, but made distinctive by several Norman architectural elements. These include the large turret with conical roof, and its projecting oriel window with conical roof on the west. The west side also has a jerkin head roof and a small gable, called a gablet. There is vertical siding on the oriel window. A second turret on the east helps to balance the house. The roof is of imbricated shingles. Its Queen Anne features include sunburst motif on its walls, which remain, and two highly decorated porches, one small one along its east side and a much larger one that ran along most of the front, wrapping all the way around the tower. By 1916, this porch was gone, and replaced by one shaped similarly to the current porch. The current porch has paired Doric order columns.


This home was originally built a block away at 302 Park Avenue. The new owner of the lot at 302 Park, Clarence Harding, had this house moved because Harding wanted to build a new house at 302. Franklin grocer, George Rossman, bought the plot at 321 Park for $750 in 1888 and sold it for $400 to Joseph Weis in 1894. Weis, in turn sold that land to one Mary Brininger for $3600 in 1904, so the house was built by then. However, the property at 302 Park was bought by Lilly Harding in 1895 for $4000 from James W. Thompson, who bought the lot in 1889 for $1000. From this it would appear that Thompson built this house, and moved it to fill Weis’ lot. Unfortunately, we know nothing about Thompson. The home’s first owner here, Mr. Weis, was a chemist. The 1900 census shows Weis, his wife Lisabel, their four children, and two servants living here. In 1906, the home was sold to Walter Siegfried, a dentist who practiced on Franklin’s Main Street. The 1910 census shows Siegfried, his wife Anna, and their four children at this address. The home remained in the family until the early 1960s.