Historic Name

57 Leigh Avenue

Address

57 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6904_22

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

American Foursquare

Number of Stories

2

Material

Brick

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, American Foursquare building and its main features are a hipped-roof dormer and a flat-roof front porch. It features a hipped roof that is clad with asphalt shingles and has wood eaves. The house is constructed of common-bond brick. All of the house’s windows are replacements. The roof of the south (front) elevation of the house features a centered, hipped-roof dormer with one, double, one-over-one, double-hung sash window. The first floor of the south elevation features a one-story, full-length, flat-roofed, wood and brick porch and an off-set front cottage door with eight inset lights over two vertical panels (door type in production 1917-1956 and may be original). The porch is accessed by an off-set concrete staircase that leads to the front door and that has a single, wood balustrade. It features two brick pillars, one on either end of the porch, with two wood Tuscan columns spaced evenly between the two; it also has a wood balustrade. The front door is flanked by two, double, one-over-one, double-hung sash windows to its west. On the second floor, there are two, single, one-over-one, double-hung sash windows centered over the windows on the first floor. The roof of the east elevation features a large, shed-roof dormer that has one, double, one-over-one, double-hung sash window. There is a two-story addition on the north (rear) elevation of this house. The house’s foundation is constructed of brick.

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 is clearly indicated on the historic aerial of 1940.

Sources

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2015 Photo
57 Leigh Avenue, south elevation

2015 Photo
57 Leigh Avenue, south and east elevations