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PROPERTY INFORMATION

Historic Name

29 Lytle Street

Address

29 Lytle Street

Tax Parcel

1114_15.02_70

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

2

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Vinyl

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/15/2020


DESCRIPTION

Setting

Description

This property contains a small late Victorian house and garage. The house is a frame, 2-story house with a front-end gabled, asphalt-shingled roof. Of not are its eaves, which are wood. Clad in vinyl siding, the house is oriented sout oriented south towards the street. On its narrow, 3-bay main (south)elevation, there is a single 1x1 replacement window (all widows on house are replacements)centered at the 2nd level. The first floor consists of a main entrance near the southwest corner and two large windows. Across the front is a full-length porch with a shed roof and supported by 4 turned wooden posts. The railing includes a simple square balustrade. The wooden porch is supported by masonry piers; steps to grade are opposite the door. The foundation is cement. The east wall contains three windows on the 2nd level and two paired units on the first. There do not appear to be windows on the west façade. The garage is a 2-car, frame building with a front end gabled roof, vertical wood cladding under the gable, and sliding wooden walls. It is located at the northeast corner of the lot.


HISTORY

Built

1900

Architect

 

Builder

 

History

Sanborn Atlases show this house being constructed between 1895 and 1902.

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PHOTO FROM 2015 SURVEY


2015 Photo
29 Lytle Street, south and east elevations


2015 Photo
29 Lytle Street, south elevation


2015 Photo
29 Lytle Street, south and west elevations


2015 Photo
29 Lytle Street - garage


HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS

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