517 Walnut Ave

From the National Register nomination

Two-story frame Queen Anne house with novelty weatherboard siding and roof with a gabled side wing, gabled dormer, and decorative exposed rafter e are one-story front and side porches with turned posts and balusters, spindle an asphalt-shingled gable nds with piercings. There friezes, and (on the front porch) a bracketed cornice. A prominent two-story front bay window has flanking second-story balconies supported by curved brackets with fanfold-pattern spandrels, pie gridwork of turned blocks in the gable apex. The front entry has sidelight rced frieze panels, and a s and a transom with an elliptical window. Other features include a brick foundation and interior chimney with a decoratively corbelled cap, 1/1 windows with reeded Victorian surrounds with turned corner blocks, and a one-story rear wing. A poured-concrete retaining wall (formerly with an iron ferice along its top) extends across the front of the lot, and a carriage house formerly stood behind. The of rehabilitation at the time of survey. Stylistically the house shares many fea 1891 newspaper article suggests that the original owner of the house was W twentieth century a Capt. Pratt lived here with his wife and a niece, Isobel occupied by H. M. Wallace in 1935. James K. Wright; Augusta County ta Times, September 11, 1891; Bowman, Waynesboro Days of Yore, vol. 1, 54; Hay front endsheets) house was in the process tures with 428 Maple. An J. Whitaker. In the early Spatrow. The house was k records, The Waynesboro wke, History of Waynesboro,