Historic Name

33 Leigh Avenue

Address

33 Leigh Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6905_33

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

American Foursquare

Number of Stories

2

Material

Wood

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/17/2020

Setting

Description

The property contains a 2.5-story, 2-bay American Foursquare house facing south to Leigh Avenue. Its key features are its pyramidal roof, hipped roof dormer, shingle cladding, multi-part windows, and front porch.

The house’s pyramidal roof is clad with asphalt shingles and features wood eaves. The south slope of the roof features a centered, hipped- roof dormer with a 1x1 double-hung sash window. The house’s walls are clad with wood shingles on the second floor and wood siding on the first floor. All of the house’s windows and doors are replacement units. On the main elevation, the second floor has two sets of paired 1x1 windows. The front door is flanked by one, triple, one-over-one, double-hung sash window to its east. The first floor of the south elevation features a one-story, full-length, hipped-roof, wood porch and an off-set front door (a replacement standard six-paneled door). The porch features three Doric columns and a wood balustrade. The porch is accessed by an off-set concrete staircase that leads to the front door and that has a double, iron balustrade.

The east elevation features a center door slightly below grade flanked by one, small, single window at the front of the first floor and one double window at the back of this floor. The second floor features two windows more or less centered over the windows on the first floor.

The west elevation features one center double window flanked to its north by one, small double window on the first floor. The second floor features one center double window flanked to its north by one single window. There is a chimney clad in stucco located off the northwest corner of the roof.

The house’s foundation is clad in stucco.

Built

1920

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1920. Historic maps show the property as vacant as late as the Sanborn Atlas of 1918. The house appears on the historic aerial of 1940.

Sources

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2015 Photo
33 Leigh Avenue, south elevation

2015 Photo
33 Leigh Avenue, south and east elevations

2015 Photo
33 Leigh Avenue, south and west elevations