This house was designed and built in 1900 by Robert McCall. McCall increased his original fifteen acre lot to twenty-five acres after the house was constructed and truck farmed the land until 1923. The McCall family occupied the house until 1964, but did not sell it until 1976. Mr. and Mrs. McCall donated the land for the original Riverside Christian Church and were charter members of the church. McCall and Daniel Hightower, who owned adjacent property at 3429 E. First Street, platted this area of Riverside in 1923. An impressive Victorian design, the McCall house is a large two-story, wood frame structure with a front gable intersected by a hipped wing. The house has a full porch with elegant spindlework, and lathe-turned columns. The front gable has a graceful lathe-turned decorative gable brace set in an incised bargeboard. This building may be eligible for the Nation¬al Register because of its architectural merit and the historic significance of the McCall family in the Riverside area.
