Historic Name

98 Leigh Avenue

Address

98 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6906_3

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Dutch Colonial Revival

Number of Stories

1

Material

Wood

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. 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 includes window under crest, two large sash units (replacements) centered on 2nd level, and a paired window unit nearly centered on 1st level. Solid replacement door with entablature located near NW corner. Full-length front porch with tin-clad hipped roof with thick cornice and overhanging eaves is supported by two narrow Doric columns. Concrete steps with metal railings lead down to grade opposite door. West façade exhibits 2nd level exhibits nearly full length dormer with three windows on dormer and two paired units (differing in size) at 1st level. East façade, beside dormer, could not be investigated.

Built

1925

Architect

Builder

History

The house dates to c. 1925. Historic atlases show a vacant lot in this location as late as the Sanborn atlas of 1918. The house first appears on the Franklin Survey atlas of 1930.

Sources

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2015 Photo
98 Leigh Avenue, north and east elevations

2015 Photo
98 Leigh Avenue, north and west elevations