867 Locust Ave

From the National Register nomination

This elaborate, two-story, three-bay, hipped-roof frame dwelling is set on a high brick foundation and is the only house constructed by the Locust Grove Investment Company north of Hazel Street in the 1890s. It was given to investor R. H. Rawlings in 1903, when the company's unsold parcels were doled out according to the number of parcels each investor possessed. Gabled wings project from the south elevation and on the north side of the east-facing facade and the high-pitched hipped roof has a false gable. The facade features a finely detailed, hipped-roof porch, approached by three wooden steps, supported by a series of turned posts with knobs, and also including a turned balustrade and spools along the porch frieze. The porch abuts the north wing and continues around the south elevation to abut the projecting south wing. The door is located in the central mass of the house and also abuts the north wing. It is flanked by a single two/two-sash window and complemented by another two/two-sash window on the 2nd story. The north wing features a semi-hexagonal bay window with a narrow, one/one-sash window on each of its three sides on the 1st floor and a rectangular bay with two narrow windows on the 2nd story. The north wing has a prominent bargeboard, continues the cornice-line of the rest of the building, and features two small casement windows with a carved wood panel suspended from the gable's apex. The gable is a true pediment and is filled in with fish-scale shingles. The central mass's hipped roof also has a carved wood panel inset at the false gable's peak. A brick chimney is attached to the north elevation.