612 Lexington Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0050 Single Dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C. American Movement, 1917 The earliest American Foursquare in the District, the house at 612 Lexington Avenue is made of brick laid in seven-course American bond and has a relatively steep hipped roof and a hipped-roof porch that stretches across the facade on free-standing and engaged Tuscan columns and a simple entablature. Aubry N. Allegree built the house in 1917 and was president of James E. Irvine, Co., Inc. One enters the porch via two low slate steps and the front door is located in the west-facing facade's north bay with sidelights and an elliptical fanlight with tracery. The south bay of the 1st floor and both bays of the 2nd floor have single one/one-sash windows with segmental surrounds and topped by segmental arches. A small, hipped-roof dormer with two one/one-sash casement windows is set in the middle of the asphalt-shingle roof and a chimney is visible on the southern side of the roof. Individual Resource Status: Single Dwelling Contributing Total: 1