This large Victorian Queen Anne was built for the Allen Krieger family in 1892 as a double, two-family house. Notice the dissimilar halves. The southeast corner offers a handsome six-sided tower, while the northwestern half of the house is foursquare-style in appearance. The Kriegers lived in the north half of the house. Krieger, himself, was a salesman for Gotizian & Company, a shoe manufacturing company. 
 
297 Bates is now being restored into a single family dwelling after being vacant for a number of years. This building was also in the Dayton's Bluff home tour in 1998. 
 
The original contractor on the house was Ernest Klinkerfues, a carpenter, who lived at 614 East 4th Street. Note the craftsmanship evident by the ornate trim details. Klinkerfues is a name that most fans of Dayton's Bluff history would recognize. Amongst other things, the Klinkerfues gained fame and fortune with their own clothing manufacturing company once located on East 7th Street.