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834 Fifth Avenue West

Harold P. May House

House. Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-story-plus-basement bungalow with a hip roof and Flemish bond brick veneer walls. Engaged front porch has battered posts on brick piers, Chinese latticework balustrade, and brickcheekwalls. Interior brick chimney. One-over-one windows and modern door. Lot slopes to rear. Harold P. and Connie May lived here from 1937 to 1938. May was a mechanic at Chipman LaCrosse Hosiery Mill. Volney and Oda Shepard lived here beginning in 1939 to 1949. Various other occupants were in the house in this time, with Shepard listed as a farmer. From 1950 to 1951 the building was divided into apartments.  
(Sanborn maps, city directories)

Garage. Contributing, ca. 1925.
One-story frame garage with weatherboard siding.

Historic District
West Side