Tree Streets Historic District
513 Chestnut Ave
O. H. Pattie House, 1906
FrameContributes to the historic character of the district
Did you know?Waynesboro and Basic City became one town in 1923
From the National Register nomination
Two-story frame Victorian house with novelty weatherboard siding and a hip-and-gable roof with metal crestings and imbricated asbestos shingles to simulate slate. The one-story wraparound porch has Ionic columns. Other features include a rockfaced concrete block foundation, exterior and interior brick flues, a front entry with transom, sidelights, and a decorative surround, Colonial Revival lunettes in the gables, 1/1 windows, and a two-tier back porch with screening and a pantry on the first ter and a sleeping porch on the second tier. A brick retaining wall extends across the front of the lot. About 1900 Pattie operated a horse-drawn trolley line that connected Waynesboro and Basic City.
Information supplied by Hawke, History of Waynesboro, 186.
Date based on city building-license files.
Also on the lot
- Carriage house, Ca. 1910
Two-story frame with asbestos-shingle siding over red-painted weathdrboard siding, an asphalt-shingled gable roof, a sliding matchboard door, and a hay loft.
People
- O. H. Pattie owner in 1900 (operated a horse-drawn trolley line that connected Waynesboro and Basic City)
Memories
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