Historic Name

91 Leigh Avenue

Address

91 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6903_16

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Wood

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/16/2020

Setting

Description

This house is a two-and-a-half-story, two-bay, vernacular building and its main architectural features are its weatherboard and wood shingle siding, steeply pitched roof, and hipped roof porch. It features a steeply- pitched, front-gable roof that is clad with slate shingles and that has curved wood bargeboards. There is a center, interior, banded, brick chimney located towards the back of the roof ridge. The first floor of the house is clad in weatherboard and the second floor and gable are clad in wood shingles.The south (front) elevation of the house features a one-story, full-length, hipped-roof porch clad in tin and an off-set front door (an original sash door). The porch is accessed by a wood staircase with a single, iron balustrade. It features three turned-wood posts that support the roof. The off-set front door is flanked by one, single, two-over-two, double-hung sash window to its west.

On the second floor, there are two, single, two-over-two, double-hung sash windows, one is centered more or less over the front door and the other one is centered more or less over the first floor window. There is one, small, single, two-over-two, double-hung sash window centered in the gable of this elevation.

There is a one-story addition to the north (rear) elevation.

Built

1920

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1920. Historic maps show a vacant lot in this location as late as the Sanborn Atlas of 1918. The house first appears on the historic aerial of 1940. [Note: the atlas of 1930 does not cover the north side of Leigh Avenue.]

Sources

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2015 Photo
91 Leigh Avenue, south and east elevations

2015 Photo
91 Leigh Avenue, south and west elevations