Tree Streets Historic District

621 Chestnut Ave

W. E. Drake House, Ca. 1910

FrameContributes to the historic character of the district

Did you know?Race Avenue has moved

1910
18001850190019502000

From the National Register nomination

Two-story frame Victorian house with asbestos-shingle siding and a metal-sheathed gable roof with a two-story gabled front wing with a peaked louvered gable vent. The one-story front porch has Ionic columns and turned balusters. Other features include a rockfaced concrete block foundation, an interior brick flue, a front entry with transom, a two-story side bay window with a cutaway gable with sawn brackets, and 1/1 windows.

Date based on Sanborn fire-insurance maps.

Also on the lot

  • Garden shed, Late 20th c. (noncontributing)

    wood

Memories

Know this house?

If you lived here, worked on it, or have old photographs, the story isn’t complete without you. Everything is reviewed before it appears.