615 Lexington Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0051 Single Dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C. American Movement, 1913 District Manager of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York Robert C. Nicholas built 615 Lexington Avenue in 1913. Nicholas and his family would later be buried in Maplewood Cemetery. The two-story, two-bay, stucco-finished dwelling has a hipped roof and a hipped-roof porch that covers most of the facade. The foundation is rock-faced concrete block. Five wooden steps with a simple wooden balustrade lead up to the porch on the north side of the east-facing facade and have simple wooden handrails. Two slender Doric columns, two engaged columns at the point where the porch terminates against the house, a turned post balustrade, and an undecorated entablature support the porch. The front door occupies the north bay and has a transom above, while the south bay of the facade has a two/two-sash replacement window. Each of the bays on the 2nd story have single two/two-sash replacement windows as well and all of the windows are shuttered. The cornice features a small central cross-gable with boxed cornice and return flush and in the center of the facade, as well as a small, circular louvered vignette directly under the gable's peak. A brick chimney emerges out of the asphalt shingle roof towards the south of the rear of the building. Individual Resource Status: Single Dwelling Contributing Total: 1 Individual Resource Status: Garage Non-Contributing Total: 1