502 Lexington Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0031 Single Dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C. American Movement, 1907 The District's only example of a variation on a vernacular I-house, 512 Lexington Avenue was built on speculation by Ira L. Ballard in 1907 and immediately sold to Louisa A. Jessup. Jessup's four unmarried children continued to live in the house, her two sons working as a painter and a printer, while one of her two daughters was a teacher. The two-story frame dwelling has a central passage and front-cross gables on either end of its facade. A flat-roofed, narrow porch stretches across the facade and is supported by four freestanding and two engaged square columns. The entrance portico projects slightly, is flanked by two columns connected by a wooden segmental arch and topped with a wooden balustrade above, creating a small balcony. The door has a transom and a simple surround. Each of the front gabled ends has a single, shuttered two/two-sash on each floor and an additional window occupies the 2nd story of the central passage. The house has a one-story frame addition on its northern side and the block's retaining wall of rock-faced concrete blocks begins in front of the dwelling, continuing northward on Lexington towards Sycamore Street. Individual Resource Status: Single Dwelling Contributing Total: 1