Tempe Historic Property Survey

Research has disclosed little information about this house. It appears to have been built between 1901 and 1911, according to the Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. maps. The house was occupied by the John Sievers family from 1912 through 1923. Sievers was known as John the Miller, and had lived in Tempe since the 1870s. Sievers was an experienced German miller who was hired by Charles Hayden to set up the machinery for the original flour mill in 1871. He was in charge of the Hayden Mill operations for many years. Sievers died in 1925.

This frame and clapboard house was one story in height with a medium-pitched roof on the main portion of the house and a low-pitched roof on the rock addition on the front. The addition replaced an earlier frame porch or veranda, and extended beyond the full length of the front façade. Windows in the addition were casement; house windows were double-hung. The gable of the main house was clapboard. An enclosed lean-to porch was at the rear of the house. A single-leaf entry was located in the east façade. An exterior chimney was located at the west façade, and a central chimney protruded from the east slope of the main roof. The house was demolished in the 1980s.

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