Tree Streets Historic District

704 Pine Ave

J. W. Bowman House, Ca. 1918

BrickContributes to the historic character of the district

Did you know?Waynesboro and Basic City became one town in 1923

1918
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From the National Register nomination

Two-story Victorian house of stretcher brick-veneer frame construction with a metal-sheathed hip roof with decorative gables. The one-story wraparound porch has Doric columns. Other features include two interior brick chimneys, windows and louvered rectangular vents in the gables, transoms over the front and side entries, a two-tier side porch with wood posts and square-section balusters, and 1/1 windows. There is a spring on the lot and a block of concrete in the yard is thought to have been associated with the chimney of an earlier house. A date that appears to be 1910 is in the concrete of the front walk, although historian Curtis Bowman, the son of one-time house owner J. W. Bowman, implies that his father had the house built in or about 1918.

Also on the lot

  • Shed, First half 20th c.

    One-story frame with matchboard siding and an asphalt-shingled gable roof.

  • Grape arbor, Late 20th c. (noncontributing)
  • Foundation, Ca. 1920 (noncontributing)

People

  • J. W. Bowman owner in 1918 (son of one-time house owner J. W. Bowman)
  • Curtis Bowman owner in 1918 (historian Curtis Bowman, the son of one-time house owner J. W. Bowman)
  • J. Sidney Langrall architect in 1918 (J. Sidney Langrall; Bowman, Waynesboro Days of Yore, vol. 2 p. 116))
  • J. W. Bowman owner in 1918 (son of one-time house owner J. W. Bowman)
  • Curtis Bowman owner in 1918 (historian Curtis Bowman, the son of one-time house owner J. W. Bowman)
  • J. Sidney Langrall architect in 1918 (J. Sidney Langrall; Bowman, Waynesboro Days of Yore, vol. 2 p. 116))

Memories

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