Historic Name

61 Leigh Avenue

Address

61 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6904_24

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Stucco

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/17/2020

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 with a small wooden porch, wood bargeboards on its front gable, and a hipped-roof front porch. It features a front-gable roof that is clad with asphalt shingles and has scrolled, wood bargeboards over the eaves. There is an interior brick chimney located at the junction of the main house with the off-set side pavilion. The house is clad in stucco. 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 wood shingles. The porch is accessed by an off- set wood staircase that leads to the front door and that has a double, metal- pipe balustrade. It features three turned-wood posts with jigsaw bracketing and a turned-wood balustrade. The front door is flanked by two, single, two-over-two, double-hung sash windows to its west. On the second floor, there are three, single, two-over-two, double-hung sash windows centered over the windows and door on the first floor. The east elevation features a recessed, two-and-a-half-story, one-bay, side-gable-roofed pavilion with its own small, wood porch. The first floor of the south elevation of the pavilion features a one-story, full- length, hipped-roofed wood porch and a central door. The porch is accessed by a center wood staircase that leads to the door and that has a single, turned- wood balustrade. It features one turned-wood post with jigsaw bracketing and a turned-wood balustrade. The house’s foundation is clad in stucco.

Built

1915

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1915. Historic maps show a vacant lot in this location as late as the Sanborn Atlas of 1911. The Sanborn Atlas of 1918 is the first to show the house, and it appears on all subsequent atlases and historic aerials.

Sources

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2015 Photo
61 Leigh Avenue, south and west elevations

2015 Photo
61 Leigh Avenue, south and east elevations