1021 Elizabeth Boulevard, Couch-Sanders House, c. 1914. The large two-story brick Couch-Sanders House is rectangular in plan with a hipped roof and full porch. A central gabled portico with arched entry flanked by engaged Tuscan columns is visually reinforced by a massive Missionesque dormer. The front terrace extends to the east side of the house … Read more
This two-story wood-framed house has a veneer of ochre brick. It has an L plan with interlocking hipped roofs clad in red tile. Eaves are soffited and adorned with brackets. A walled terrace wraps around the front and east side, with full front porch and side trellis. A large gabled dormer with small-paned peaked window … Read more
The Peacock House is a two-story wood-framed house sheathed in smooth stucco painted white, rectangular in plan and capped by a red-tiled hipped roof with soffited eaves. Windows on the ground floor are casements set in round-arched openings; those on the second floor are double-hung and rectangular. The symmetrical front elevation features a central recessed … Read more
The Bevan House is a one-story L-plan structure constructed of hollow tile and clad in stucco. The gables of the wings extend to become a porch on the front and a porte-cochere on the south side, terminated by walls and Missionesque parapets. The house was begun in late 1918 and completed in 1919. John C. … Read more
This large two-story house is rectangular in plan and has a glazed green-tiled hipped roof. Walls are red brick over hollow tile. Rectangular bays project from the sides and rear. A full roof-terraced porch and terrace with cast stone balustrade extends across the front. The house was built for Andrew Jackson Long, a prominent Fort … Read more
The Smith House is two stories and is constructed of hollow tile with white-painted stucco walls. It is rectangular in plan, with glazed green-tiled roof. The long front façade is elegantly composed of balanced elements: projecting end bays and a central pedimented portico surmounted by gabled wall dormer and flanked by Palladian windows. A full … Read more
John C. Ryan developed Ryan Place as an exclusive residential neighborhood extending south from Jessamine Street between Eighth and College Avenues. The first phase of the development was Elizabeth Blvd., laid out in 1911. In that year, elaborate entrance gates of Carthage stone and marble were erected at the east and west ends of the … Read more
The Weid House is a wood-framed structure faced in buff brick. In composition, it is a one-story hipped wing which telescopes forward in progressively smaller masses from a two-story wing with jerkinhead roof. The roofs are clad in glazed green tile. A jerkinheaded portico, with roof pierced by twin piers, leads to a full recessed … Read more
The Chase-Meacham House is two stories and clad in white glazed brick. It is rectangular in plan with a glazed green-tiled hipped roof. Situated on a corner lot, a terrace wraps around the two principal façades, covered by a full porch with Ionic columns along the front. High end piers on the porch have friezes … Read more
This house was built in 1917 for Charles H. Steele, vice president of the American National Bank and later an investment broker, who resided here for 25 years. The two-story house is of wood-framed construction with a veneer of fine polychrome red brick trimmed in white cast stone. A staggered plan incorporates a front portico, … Read more