Historic Name

97 Birch Avenue

Address

97 Birch Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6902_39

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Dutch Colonial Revival

Number of Stories

2

Material

Aluminum

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/21/2020

Setting

Description

This house is atwo-story, three-bay, Dutch Colonial Revival building and its main features are its continuous shed-roof dormers and its exterior brick chimney. It features a side-gambrel roof clad in slate shingles. The house is clad inaluminum siding. All of the house’s windows are replacements. The first floor of the east (front) elevation features a front-gable door hood with a concrete stoop. The stoop is accessed by two, concrete staircases with single iron balustrades, one on each end of the stoop. The front door is flanked by one, double, one-over-one, double-hung sash window to its north and one, single, one-over-one, double-hung sash window to its south. On the second floor, there is a continuous, shed- roofed dormer with three, single, one-over-one, double-hung sash windows evenly spaced across its face. The south elevation features an exterior, brick chimney. And there is a one-story, hipped-roofed addition clad in aluminum siding. There are two, double, one-over-one, double-hung sash windows evenly spaced across its face. The house’s foundation is clad in stucco.

Built

1925

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1925. Historic maps and Sanborn Atlases show a vacant parcel in this location as late as 1918. [The historic atlas of 1930 does not cover Birch Avenue.] The house first appears on the historic aerial of 1940 and appears on all subsequent historic aerials.

Sources

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2015 Photo
97 Birch Avenue, south and east elevations

2015 Photo
97 Birch Avenue, south and west elevations