Historic Name

19 Lytle Street

Address

19 Lytle Street

Tax Parcel

1114_15.02_66

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Machine Shingles

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/15/2020

Setting

Description

This property contains a two-story, three-bay vernacular house with a large two- story, shed-roofed rear addition and a small one-story far rear addition. The core is a small, two-story, frame, two-to-three bay house with an end gabled, asphalt-shingled roof. The walls of the core and additions are clad in machine shingles. One the main (south) façade are two 1x1 replacement windows with faux shutters slightly off-center towards the west. (All windows are replacements.) On the first floor, two similar windows are aligned with those above, and the main entrance is at the SE corner. The doors was installed in the late 1960s and is a three- panel Leader door. A full-length front porch is protected by a hipped-roof supported by three metal posts. The porch is concrete just 2 steps above grade. Cement steps lead to a walk that in turn leads to the sidewalk. Fenestration on the east side: a single window 1st floor of core near SE corner, a single window on 2nd level of rear addition, and single windows on the 1st floor. There is also a door on he far rear addition. On the west addition, there are two windows aligned on the rear addition. The foundation is concrete.

Built

1900

Architect

Builder

History

According to Sanborn maps, this house was constructed between 1895 and 1902.

Sources

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2015 Photo
19 Lytle Street, south and east elevations

2015 Photo
19 Lytle Street, south and west elevations