327 6th St SW

From the National Register nomination

104-0233 Other DHR Id #: 104-0213-0144 Primary Resource Information: Single Dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Second Empire, ca 1879 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Charlottesville Multiple Resource Area District, this dwelling combines the Italianate, Second Empire and Gothic Revival architectural styles, all of which were popular during the mid-to-late 19th century. The asymmetrical house is comprised of a 1 1/2-story, 2-bay, single-pile side-passage-plan, gable-roofed main block with an off-center gable-roofed front wall dormer that breaks through the overhanging eaves and gives the house its Gothic Revival aspect. This section contains the front entrance door which is topped by a 2-light transom. The walls are stuccoed, and the standing-seam metal roof contains a central brick chimney. A 3-bay hip-roofed front porch is supported by turned posts. The windows on this section are varied: the dormer contains paired 4/4-sash, the front window 1/1-sash, and the side elevation 6/9-sash. A 2-story, 2-bay, gable-roofed wing with 6/6-sash windows, and an enclosed 1-story, shed-roofed, porch along the south side extends to the rear. A visually prominent 2-story, 1-bay tower with a Mansard roof projects forward along the northeast side of the main block, lending Second Empire and Italianate elements to the dwelling. A full two stories tall, the stuccoed tower features narrow paired 1/1-sash windows on the both floors, overhanging eaves, a plain frieze and steeply pitched Mansard roof clad with metal plates. The house was constructed between 1875 and 1879 and was in this basic configuration when it appeared on the 1907 Sanborn Map. It is a very interesting vernacular adaptation of popular Romantic architectural styles of the period and unlike any other in the district. Individual Resource Status: Single Dwelling Contributing Total: 1