Historic Name

159 John Street

Address

159 John Street

Tax Parcel

1114_17.03_68

Historic District

Witherspoon-Jackson Historic District

Classification

Noncontributing

Number of Resources

1

Style

Other

Number of Stories

2

Material

Vinyl

Historic Function

Domestic

Current Function

Domestic

Last Entry Update

2/9/2020

Setting

Description

Property contains 2-story, 3-bay, vinyl-clad, house with end-gabled, asphalt shingled house with 2-story shed roofed addition. Heavily altered with fenestration arrangement plus cladding makes this noncontributing. House does have fine hipped roofed porch on north side. House does have fine hipped roofed porch on north side.

Built

1850

Architect

Builder

History

House appears on 1852 map and thus is one of the older buildings in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood. It has been heavily modified.

Sources

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2015 Photo
159 John Street, south and west elevations