204 W. 8th Street

Nathan Armstrong House

Built: c.1870/Early 20th Century

Style: Spanish Eclectic

The original portion of this house was built in c. 1870 by Nathan Armstrong, who had a planing mill and owned Armstrong and Brosther, a sash, door, and blind factory. Glenn Gates, proprietor of Gates’ Cloak House (women’s clothing) and later the Director of the Anderson Banking Company, purchased the home by 1924. By the early 1950s, Roy Alexander owned the home; he was the Chairman of the Board of the National Tile and Manufacturing Company. The Alexander family lived in the home for several decades. This two-story home has an asymmetric facade. The Spanish Eclectic details, including the stucco, red tiles, round arched windows, and other Spanish elements, were probably added in the early twentieth century.