504 Grove Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0006 Single Dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C., 1905 Built by Locust Grove Investment Company President George B. Marshall in 1905 on speculation and sold to salesman John B. Marr the next year, this two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling has a hipped roof with a cross gable on the south and north elevations and a slightly projecting north bay on the west-facing facade, splitting the facade into two roughly equal parts. A hipped-roof porch with slender Tuscan columns and turned balustrade shades the 1st floor of the facade and abuts the projecting northern bay. The entrance is located roughly in the center of the building, has a transom, and is flanked to the south by a single four/four-sash window. The upper story of the southern portion of the facade has two more four/four-sash windows. The projecting northern bay has a single four/four-sash window on each story and a defined pediment to its gable, complete with a small casement window and filled with wooden fish-scale shingles. The gables on the side elevations have identical pediments. All of the windows have louvered shutters and a small, one-story addition is attached to the north elevation of the dwelling. The roof is covered in asphalt shingles. Individual Resource Status: Single Dwelling Contributing Total: 1