622 Locust Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0084 Multiple dwelling, Stories 2.50, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C. American Movement 1895 Newton Beckwith built this impressive 2.5-story, three-bay, hipped-roof, frame dwelling in 1895. The building sits on a high, solid brick foundation and has complicated massing with a cross gabled, slightly projecting baby off the northern side of the facade, a gabled bay extending from the south elevation, and a false gable attached to the top of the hipped-roof main mass of the building, placed slightly behind the gable of the north wing of the facade. The north bay has a single six/six-sash window on each of the 2.5 floors; that of the 2nd floor is a part of a semi-hexagonal portion, while that of the 2nd is part of a rectangular portion. A hipped-roof porch approached by eight wooden steps shades the 1st floor of the south and central bays. The porch abuts the projecting north bay and wraps around the south elevation to terminate against the south wing. The porch has turned posts with knobs, a turned balustrade, and spools along the porch frieze with brackets. The entrance is roughly in the center of the facade, has a simple modern door, and is flanked to the right by a single, six/six-sash window. A single window occupies the 2nd story of the south bay. The false gable has a bargeboard with cutout decorations. A one-story, frame addition extends the rear of the house and is attached via a small, one-story frame connector to a two-story, brick, modern, side-gabled dwelling that faces onto Poplar Street. Beckwith and his family are buried in Maplewood Cemetery. Individual Resource Status: Multiple dwelling Contributing Total: 1