621 Lexington Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0054 Single Dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C. American Movement, 1913 Another one of the most distinctive houses in the District also built of rock-faced concrete block, The Michie Company pressman C. A. Anderson built 621 Lexington in 1913. This two-story, hipped-roof house is slightly L-shaped, with a semi-hexagonal projecting bay on its southern side. One approaches the metal-roofed house via six concrete steps with metal handrails roughly in the center of a hipped-roof porch that stretches the entire length of the facade and has four extremely simplified Tuscan columns with a turned balustrade. The door has fanlights and a transom, is roughly in the center of the facade abutting the projecting bay, and is surrounded by a segmental surround with a segmental arch above. It is flanked to the right by a casement window with tracery. A single window sits above the door on the 2nd floor. The projecting bay has three windows on each story and is topped by a full, projecting pediment with a cornice and exposed rafter ends that match the porch below and extend around the entire house at the base of the metal roof. The pediment is covered with asphalt tiles and has a small, louvered vent in its center. The windows on the 1st floor have segmental surrounds and all of the windows are one/one-sash. Plain concrete block water and string courses differentiate the side elevations. A chimney emerges from the middle of the roof on the southwest side of the house. The north elevation also has a small pediment at its northeast corner to match the facade. An original, one-story wing pushes the house to the rear of the lot and is amended by a modern frame sunroom. Individual Resource Status: Single Dwelling Contributing Total: 1 Individual Resource Status: Garage Contributing Total: 1