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PROPERTY INFORMATION

Historic Name

11 Quarry Street

Address

11 Quarry Street

Tax Parcel

1114_17.03_88

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Noncontributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Machine Shingle

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/13/2020


DESCRIPTION

Setting

Description

Five bay rectangular, tewo story gable roof with the ridge parallel to the street. The five second story one over one windows are evenly spaced across the facade and aligned with the two right hand units and front door below. The other side of the hip roof porch has been enclosed and has a three part picture window. The porch has a small gable front aligned with the entrance door. the porch wraps the east facade where there are two doors on either side of a brick panel that is the base of a chimney that disappears behind the machine shingle siding on the rest of the facade then reappears centered on the gable end. The porch has replacement posts with a greater spacing than original. There is a two story shed extension off the rear aligned with the west gable end.


HISTORY

Built

1840

Architect

 

Builder

 

History

The house was constructed c. 1840. It appears on the map of 1852 and on all subsequent maps and atlases.

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PHOTO FROM 2015 SURVEY


2015 Photo
11 Quarry Street, main (south) elevation


2015 Photo
11 Quarry Street, south and west elevations


2015 Photo
11 Quarry Street, south and east elevations


2015 Photo
11 Quarry Street, detail of east elevation showing the brick fireback


HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS

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