765 Pine Ave

From the National Register nomination

Two-and-a-half-story frame Queen Anne-influenced house with a Tudor Revival remodeling that includes a brick-veneered first-story, corners, and ell; and a stuccoed and hdlf-timbered second-story. The house's asymmetrical form and some Queen Anne features, such as a thitee-story polygonal corner tower, projecting front wing, wraparound porch, cornice with gable end returns, and 16-light square sash in the uppermost tower room, attest to its original appearance. The house's roofs, including the hexagonal tower roof, are clad with standing-seam-metal; windows have narrow 1/1 double-hung wood sash, and entryways feature single-leaf paneled wood and glass doors topped by transoms. The one-story, hip-roofed, wraparound porch incorporates wood post supports. A brick retaining wall extends across the front of the property. Merchant James H. Bell and his wife Ruth Lee McCue Bell are thought to have built the house about the time they moved to Waynesboro in 1900, probably in 1901 when Ruthi was deeded the site. In 1918 the house was acquired by Myrtle Jones, who added a tennis court and who probably remodeled the house, perhaps as a result of a fire. The Tudor Revival remodeling is similar in execution to the Tudorized house of contractor Harry Brooks at 368 Chestnut; presumably Brooks remodeled both houses. The remodeling occurred in 1935 according to Bailey. (Unlikely becduse owned by bank that year, unless it was remodeled to make it attractive to a purchaser, which is doubtful.) A more likely alternative is that it occurred sometime during or shortly after Myrtle Jones' ownership, according to Curtis Bowman.

Information supplied by Bowman, Waynesboro Days of Yore, vol. 2 pp. 115-116.