Tree Streets Historic District
636 Chestnut Ave
A house, Ca. 1920
FrameContributes to the historic character of the district
Did you know?Chestnut Avenue house appears built between 1920 and 1925
From the National Register nomination
Two-story frame Victorian house with vinyl siding and a metal-sheathed hip roof with a decorative front gable. The one-story wraparound porch has classical wood columns and square-section balusters. Other features include a brick and concrete foundation, a brick interior flue, multiple front entries, 1/1 windows. a one-story back porch, and a one-story brick addition at the south back corner with a shed roof and stepped side parapet. This addition appears to have been a once separate garage built about the same time as the house. The house was either built as apartments or made into them; in 1935 two apartments were occupied by Samuel A. Craig and Mrs. Edna W. Jordan.
Date based on Sanborn fire-insurance maps.
Also on the lot
- Garage and apartment, Ca. 1920; ca. 1930
One-story and story-and-a-half frame building with four discernable phases of construction. The north end was built in the early 1920s; the south sections were added in the late 1920s. The building has vinyl and novelty weatherboard siding, an asphalt+shingled gable and shed roof, a poured-concrete foundation, a frame carport addition, and an 'upstairs apartment above the north section with shed dormers.
People
- Samuel A. Craig lived here in 1935 (occupied one of two apartments)
- Mrs. Edna W. Jordan lived here in 1935 (occupied one of two apartments)