David Newman House
Contributing, ca. 1925.
One-story side-gable cottage with weatherboard siding and German siding on a rear addition. Shed roof front porch with replacement posts and balustrade. Exterior end chimney. Six-over-six windows and modern door. David Newman, a realtor, lived here from 1937 to 1938. Benjamin Simmons, a timekeeper, lived here from 1939 to 1940. Horace and Violet Reeler lived here from 1941 to 1942. Reeler was a paper carrier. Whitney and Margaret Amadio owned the house from 1945 to at least 1951.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)
Murphee House
Contributing, ca. 1920.
One and one-half-story bungalow with vinyl siding, including covering porch posts. Deck added to rear. Side gable roof with shed roof dormer, exterior end chimney. Front engaged porch piers are stuccoed. Three vertical-over-one and casement windows. Multi-light door. Picket fence. Mrs. Lou Murphee lived here from 1937 to 1938. Jesse H. and Gertrude E. Holdford lived here from 1939 to 1940. Holdford was a waiter at Shorty's Pig. Mrs. Lillie Morris, widow of Vernon Morris, lived here from 1941 to 1942. Angel Page, with Beulah Corporation, lived here from 1943 to 1944, and Lonnie and Nellie Charles lived here from 1945 to at least 1951. Charles was a painter.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)
Robert M. Sharp House
House. Contributing, ca. 1920.
Two-story Colonial Revival house with a center hall plan, hip roof, and original weatherboard siding. One-story wing at rear. Wraparound porch with tapered posts on brick piers, no balustrade. Upper porch with turned columns and hip roof above center bay of lower porch. Pair of interior brick chimneys. One-over-one windows and single-light-over-panel front door. Large lot with mature trees. Robert M. and Phyllis J. Sharp of Richmond, Virginia, lived here from 1937 to 1938. They apparently lived here part of the year through 1944, with the house remaining vacant part of the time. William T. and Elvira Williams lived here from 1945 to 1946, and Hazel Wachtel lived here from 1948 to at least 1951. The small cottage to the west appears to have been an outbuilding to this house originally (#51).
(Sanborn maps, city directories)
Garage and storage building. Non-contributing, ca. 1955.
One-story frame building with shed roof and board and batten siding.
Lawrence Crouch House
Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-story plus basement bungalow with hip roof and projecting gable roof bays. Stepped knee braces. Shingle siding. Attached front porch has replacement iron posts. Exterior end chimney. Six-over-six and twelve-over-one windows, modern door. Lot slopes to rear, picket fence. Lawrence and Tressie Crouch lived here from 1937 to 1938. Mrs. Alice Smith lived here from 1941 to 1942. Cyril E. and Emma L. Livingstone, with Tracy's Lunch Room, lived here from 1943 to 1944. Jesse Lee, USCG, lived here from 1945 to 1949, and Ernest Gimple lived here beginning in 1950. The house may also have been owned or rented by pastors associated with the First Presbyterian Church.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, owner)
George F. Knappen House
Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-story plus basement bungalow with a cross gable roof, weatherboard siding on first floor, and shingles in gable ends. Wraparound bungaloid porch with solid brick balustrade. Central interior end chimney. Eight-over-one and casement windows. Modern door. George F. and Anna Knappen lived here from 1937 to 1942. Mrs. Bessie Arledge, widow of William Arledge, lived here from 1943 to 1944. Elvin and Ethel G. Poole lived here from 1945 to 1945. Richard and Maude Bradburn lived here from 1948 to at least 1951. Fair condition, currently being renovated.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)