Historic Name

97 Leigh Avenue

Address

97 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6903_19

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Noncontributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Vinyl

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/16/2020

Setting

Description

This house is a two-and-a-half-story, three-bay, L-shaped, vernacular building and its main features are a recessed off-set, side pavilion and a hipped-roof front porch. It features a front-gable roof that is clad with asphalt shingles. The house is clad in vinyl siding. All of the house’s doors and windows are replacements.

The first floor of the south elevation features a one-story, full-length, hipped-roofed wood porch and an off-set front door. The porch roof features an off-set, wood pediment on the front door side of the porch. The tympanum is clad in vinyl siding. The porch is accessed by an off-set stone staircase that leads to the front door and that has a double, iron balustrade. It features three, square wood columns and a low, wood parapet. The front door is flanked by two, single, six-over-six, double- hung sash windows to its west. On the second floor, there are three, single, six-over-six, double-hung sash windows centered over the windows and front door on the first floor.

The east elevation features a recessed, two-and-a-half-story, one-bay, side-gable-roofed pavilion. The first floor of the south elevation of the pavilion features one, single, six-over-six, double-hung sash window.

At the rear of the property, there is a one-and-a-half-story, one-bay, front-gable roofed, stuccoed garage. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles.

Built

1910

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1905. The house appears on the Sanborn Atlas of 1906 and succeeding maps.

Sources

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2015 Photo
97 Leigh Avenue, south elevation