Historic Name

70-74 Witherspoon Street

Address

70-74 Witherspoon Street

Tax Parcel

1114_20.04_52

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Stucco

Historic Function

Commerce

Current Function

Commerce

Last Entry Update

2/8/2020

Setting

Description

The building appears to be a combination of two structures, a three bay to the south and a two bay to the north The five bay east elevation faces Witherspoon Street and is divided into two zones, shop windows at the ground floor and one over one double hung above with louvered shutters beneath an overhanging cornice. Both buildings have gabled roofs with the north building having a compound slope of the front that flattens out to meet the cornice line of the adjoining structure to the south. There is a central entrance with ornamental pilasters and a cornice that leads to the spaces on the second floor. The shops on either side have three part shop fronts with recessed doors and large plate glass windows on low walls. All of the wall surfaces are stuccoed. The south facade has two small windows in the gable end, three in the main block and slightly smaller one in a one bay flat roof extension. The north facade has a large second floor window under the low slope front roof extension, a small window in the gable end and one other in the rear of the main block. There is a two bay extension off the rear with two additional second floor windows. A one story shed roof extension at the rear goes past the south wall to a one story flat roof mass that abuts the entire south facade.

Built

1900

Architect

Builder

History

Sources

HPC information; Wanda Gunning research; Sanborn Maps (the buildings appear on the 1890 Sanborn map. Earlier maps dating to 1849 Otley and Keily Map also indicate a structure here, however it is not so well indicated in the 1852 Bevan map.)

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2015 Photo
70-74 Witherspoon Street, facing northwest

2015 Photo
70-74 Witherspoon Street, main (east) elevation

2015 Photo
70-74 Witherspoon Street, facing southwest