Historic Name

96 Leigh Avenue

Address

96 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6906_4

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Dutch Colonial Revival

Number of Stories

1

Material

Aluminum

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/16/2020

Setting

Description

This is a fine example of a front-end-gambrel-roofed house designed in the Dutch Colonial Revival style. Key features: wooden eaves and cladding with wood shingles on 2nd floor and clapboard at first floor. It is basically a twin of the house at 98 Leigh which are two of the few all wood cladded houses in the neighborhood. This is a frame, 1.5-story, 2- bay, house with an asphalt shingled gambrel roof. Additional key features are its roof, large monitor dormers, and wooden window entablatures. Main (north) façade features a half-round window under crest, two large sash units (replacements - here and throughout house) centered on 2nd level. The first floor porch is enclosed such that description of fenestration at the level is not possible. That said, and like 98 Leigh, a door to the porch is near the SE corner indicating the main entrance location. The enclosed porch is clad in vinyl siding with a paired window east door to porch. That door is a multi-light glazed French unit with sidelights and transom. Full-length front porch has a hipped roof with thick cornice and overhanging eaves. Wide concrete steps with metal railings lead down to grad grade opposite door. West façade exhibits 2nd level exhibits nearly full length dormer with three windows on dormer and a single paired unit in center and small square unit near SW corner. East façade shows a single sash and a paired sash in dormer; first floor obscured.

Built

1925

Architect

Builder

History

This property and adjacent Dutch Colonial houses appear on Sanborn Property Atlases between the 1918 and 1927 map publications, hence the c. 1925 construction date.

Sources

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2015 Photo
96 Leigh Avenue, north elevation

2015 Photo
96 Leigh Avenue, north and west elevations

2015 Photo
96 Leigh Avenue, north and east elevations