705 Walnut Ave

From the National Register nomination

Two-story frame Queen Anne house with novelty weatherboard siding and an asphalt-shingled gable roof. The one-story wraparound porch has classical wood columns, turned balusters, and a basement-level work room under the south end. Other features include a stone foundation, an interior brick chimney, a two-story front bay window with a cutaway gable, beaded matchboard and board-and-batten gable sheathings, a north-side one-story bay window, 2/2 windows with molded surrounds with. turned corner blocks, and an enclosed two-tier back porch. The property is notable for the rockfaced, concrete-block wall that extends along Walnut and Fifteenth, which has intermittent piers with hollowed-out tops that served as planters, and (along steep slopes) curved copings. Concrete-block. piers with decorative iron fence panels between continue the wall at its ends. Writer Frank Sweet once owned this house. The occupant in 1935 may have been L. F. McCauley.

Information supplied by James K. Wright.