Tree Streets Historic District
537 Chestnut Ave
Frank Pleasants House, Ca. 1900
FrameContributes to the historic character of the district
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From the National Register nomination
Two-story frame Victorian house with asbestos-shingle siding and a metal-sheathed gable roof with a decorative front gable. The two-tier front porch has turned posts, sawn brackets, and rectangular-section balusters on the first tier and a glassed-in second tier sleeping porch on the center bay only with turned posts and sawn brackets. Other features include a parged foundation, a brick interior chimney, a peaked louvered gable vent, 2/2 windows, a one-story bay window on the south side, and a two-story ell and one-story glassed-in back porch.
Date based on Sanborn fire-insurance maps.
Also on the lot
- Swimming pool, Late 20th c. (noncontributing)
above ground
People
- Frank Pleasants owner in 1900 (Ca. 1900 (S))
- Frank Pleasants owner in 1900 (Ca. 1900 (S))
Memories
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