Historic Name

73 Birch Avenue

Address

73 Birch Avenue

Tax Parcel

1114_6902_27

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

2/9/2020

Setting

Description

The property contains a 2-story, 3-bay residence that faces south to Birch Avenue. Its key features are its wrap-around, hipped-roof porch and interior brick chimney. The house is very similar in appearance to its neighbor to the east (69 Birch Avenue). The house features a front-gable roof clad with asphalt shingles and aluminum clad eaves. There is an interior brick chimney located in the center of its east slope. The house is clad in aluminum siding. All of the house’s windows are replacements. The south elevation of the house features a one-story, wrap-around, hipped-roof porch and an off-set front door. The porch roof is clad in asphalt shingles. The porch is accessed by an off-set wood staircase with a double, iron balustrade. It features five or six square, wood columns and an iron balustrade. The off-set front door is flanked by one, double, one-over-one, double-hung sash window. On the second floor, there are two, single, one-over-one, double-hung sash windows centered more or less over the front door and the double window on the first floor. There is one, small, single, one-over-one, double-hung sash window centered in the gable of this elevation. There is a one-story, shed-roof addition on the north (rear) elevation.

Built

1915

Architect

Builder

History

The house was constructed c. 1915. Historic maps indicate that the parcel was vacant as late as the Sanborn Atlas of 1911. The house first appears on the Sanborn Atlas of 1918.

Sources

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2015 Photo
73 Birch Avenue, south and east elevations

2015 Photo
73 Birch Avenue, south and west elevations as seen from the intersection with John Street