Tree Streets Historic District
329 Walnut Ave
Charles and Mabel Rusmiselle House, 1918
FrameContributes to the historic character of the district
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From the National Register nomination
Story-and-a-half frame Craftsman bungalow with a stucco exterior and an asphalt-shingled gable roof with a large shed dormer across the front with multiple decorative windows indicating its former function as a sleeping porch. The engaged front porch has stuccoed square-section pillars with curved corbel-like tops, and there is a stuccoed railing. Other features include a north-end exterior brick chimney with concave shoulders, an exterior brick flue to the rear, a two-story bay window, a basement, 8/1 windows, and an engaged back porch with stuccoed square-section pillars. A root cellar may once have stood along the alley at the south corner of the property. Pharmacist Charles W. Rusmiselle, a co-owner of the Fishburne Drug Store, and his wife Mabel Spillers Rusmiselle had this house built. James K. Wright; Bowman, Waynesboro Days of Yore, vol. 1 p. 137; Hawke, History of Waynesboro, 84)
Also on the lot
- Garage, Ca. 1930
One-story poured-concrete with a low-pitched concrete gable roof.
People
- Charles W. Rusmiselle owner in 1918 (Pharmacist, co-owner of the Fishburne Drug Store)
- Mabel Spillers Rusmiselle owner in 1918 (wife of Charles W. Rusmiselle)
- James K. Wright architect in 1918
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