Historic Name

65 Birch Avenue

Address

65 Birch Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6902_25

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Contributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Aluminum

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/21/2020

Setting

Description

The house is a 2-story vernacular house facing south to Birch Avenue. The house's front end gabled roof is clad with asphalt shingles. The house's frame walls are clad with aluminum siding. Windows are 6x1 double hung sash units, with two bays on the south, west, and east elevations; windows on the south elevation feature inoperable shutters. The door appears to be an original unit near the southeast corner; it has three vertical lights above two vertical panels (A door type in production from 1925 to 1955). The house has a shed roofed front porch with three posts shading a paired window west of the door. The posts are connected by a railing that flows down steps down to the grade of the front lawn. The house has a concrete foundation.

Built

1920

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1920. Historic maps indicate that the property was vacant as late as the Sanborn atlas of 1918. The first indication of the house is the historic aerial of 1940, which shows the building (as do all subsequent historic aerials). Note: the historic atlas of 1930 does not document houses along Birch Avenue.

Sources

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2015 Photo
65 Birch Avenue, south and east elevations

2015 Photo
65 Birch Avenue, south and west elevations