834 Locust Ave

From the National Register nomination

104-5144-0110 Multiple dwelling, Stories 2.00, Style: Late 19th and Early 20th C. American Movement, 1898 The Michie-Morris House is named for its initial owner, Hay Watson Michie, who built the house in 1898. Michie was the wife of G. R. B. Michie, an investor in the Locust Grove Investment Company, and purchased the property before the area was platted by the development company. After the Michies moved to The Farm in 1909, they sold this house to the Morris family. The two-story, three-bay, hipped-roof, frame house has a rectangular projecting bay on the north elevation and semi-hexagonal bays projecting off-center on the facade and south elevation. It is set on a low brick foundation. Twin porches on coupled, slender Tuscan columns on wooden plinths shade the 1st floor of the recessed, two-bay, northern portion of the facade abutting the projecting bay and also the southwest corner of the house. This porch is partly filled in to serve as a sunroom and has a door with a transom, a window, and pilasters that face the street. The porches have block modillions. The double, glass front door with a single-light transom is centrally located in the recessed portion of the house, abutting the semi-hexagonal bay, and is flanked by an additional doorway. Two windows occupy the space above. There is a single window on each side of each floor of the projecting bay; all windows in the house are one/one-sash with louvered shutters. The gables each have a full pediment with a bargeboard, pressed tin infill, and a fanlight with tracery and a dentil course below in the center of the pediment; brackets support the overhanging edges of the pediment. The high-pitched hipped roof is metal and has Philadelphia gutters and projecting eaves. Two chimneys are visible and an additional porch is attached to the north elevation. Individual Resource Status: Multiple dwelling Contributing Total: 1 Individual Resource Status: Guest House Contributing Total: 1 Individual Resource Status: Shed Contributing Total: 2