Walking tour.

First of all, I'm so glad to have the opportunity to explore more in the Eau Claire and the weather of that day were just nice to have a walking tour. Besides those pictures are taken in the windy and sunny day. Specially thanks for Bae because he helps me to take the pictures and brought me to those places even though he had done with his walking tour. I'm appreciate that very much!  

The bungalow, and its early twentieth century style, which remainedpopular until 1940, is easily recognizable. Usually one or one and a halfstory structures, these informal wooden, stucco or brick houses havebroad, sloping roofs ending in wide eaves, and may exhibit exposedrafters, able windows, or dormers and a modest front porch. The smallresidences, most commonly erected by middle class people, conform tothe early twentieth century preference for convenience and simplicity.
Highly popular in the 1930s, inexpensive bungalow plans were availablefrom Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs and in other “bungalowbooks” prepared by local contractors and builders. Individual examplesmay feature cobblestone chimneys or decorative half-timbering.
First popularized in California, bungalows are thought to have evolvedfrom thatched hut cottages in India

Eau Claire architect Edward Hancock designed the Second Ward School and amatching 1929 addition. Hancock was born in England in 1889 and immigratedas a boy to the United States. He moved to Eau Claire in 1915 and designed anumber of landmark properties such as the Masonic Temple, the commercialblock at 403 South Barstow Street, two homes within the Third WardNeighborhood and the Eau Claire Senior High School. The school was renamedBoyd Elementary School in 1951 recognizing Robert Boyd, a realtor and citycouncilman who donated the land to the north for Boyd Playground.
The building is a fully developed example of the Collegiate Gothic style includinga brick finish accented with stone, parapets, towered keep-like entrance andornamentation such as the stone quoining, patera, classical moldings and humanfaced grotesques.
The school closed in the spring of 2002 and was converted into apartments.