Tree Streets Historic District

713 Pine Ave

Olaf Oas House, 1928; 1967

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1928
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From the National Register nomination

Two-story Colonial Revival house of stuccoed frame construction with a slate-shingled gable roof. The dominant exterior feature is a full-facade single-tier two-story front portico on paneled square-section monumental wood columns and with a Chinese Chippendale roof balustrade of painted redwood. The front entry has sidelights and an elliptical fanlight with decorative muntins; above is a second-story French door opening onto a false metal balcony. Other features include exterior stuccoed masonry end chimneys with paved shoulders and decorative recesses in the stacks, flanking quarter-round windows in the gables, a one-story south-end sun room with pilasters and a roof balustrade similar to that on the porch, 6/6 windows, and a one-story rear addition made in 1967. Now attached to the rear addition but originally detached is a one-story stuccoed frame garage with a slate-shingled roof with pedimented gables with weatherboard siding and lunettes. A slate and concrete retaining wall with boxwood hedge extends in front of the house, and the yard is shaded by large oaks and maples. The house was built in 1928 by Hopeman Bros. Enterprises, a ship interior outfitter, for its plant manager Olaf Oas. From 1947 to 1973 the house was owned by Sam and Barbara Austin. Sam Austin was a CEO with Crompton Corduroy and a former mayor of Waynesboro.

Information supplied by Thomas L. Varner.

People

  • Olaf Oas owner in 1928 (plant manager for Hopeman Bros. Enterprises)
  • Sam Austin owner in 1947 (CEO with Crompton Corduroy and a former mayor of Waynesboro)
  • Barbara Austin owner in 1947
  • Hopeman Bros. Enterprises builder in 1928 (ship interior outfitter)

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