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PROPERTY INFORMATION

Historic Name

18 Leigh Avenue

Address

18 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6907_13

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Vinyl

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/15/2020


DESCRIPTION

Setting

Description

Two story vinyl clad three bay residence on a raised foundation. The main roof gable faces the street. The three two over two windows are aligned with the same type below and the entrance door on the right of the raised three bay flat roof porch. There are simple square spindle railings between the wood Tuscan columns. There is a small square window in the gable end and two chimneys, one at the midpoint of the ridge, and one on the rear gable end. There is one window at each level towards the rear of the west elevation, and five on the east, including a paired second floor window in the center.


HISTORY

Built

1905

Architect

 

Builder

 

History

The house was constructed c. 1905. It appears on the Sanborn atlas of 1906 and all later atlases, built just after the road was laid out.

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PHOTO FROM 2015 SURVEY


2015 Photo
18 Leigh Avenue, north elevation


2015 Photo
18 Leigh Avenue, north and east elevations


2015 Photo
18 Leigh Avenue, north and west elevations


HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS

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