Tree Streets Historic District
700 Locust Ave
Spillman House, Ca. 1940.
BrickContributes to the historic character of the district
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From the National Register nomination
Two-story, brick-faced frame single-family dwelling with a semi-detached one-story hipped-roof garage facing onto Fifteenth Street. Features include a first-story single-leaf paneled wood door with sidelights, set beneath a second-story stuccoed wall and sheltered by a semicircular two-story entry portico with Tower of the Winds columns; windows with 8/8 double-hung wood sash, jack arches, and keystones; and an asbestos-shingled hipped roof. The large, heavily wooded lot is faced with a brick retaining wall the length of the property along Locust Avenue. Spillmas was a newspaper editor (Frances Cook).
Date based on Sanborn fire-insurance maps.
Also on the lot
- Garden shed/pavilion, Ca. 1960. (noncontributing)
One-story, tile block and brick gabled storage building with an attached metal open pavilion; associated with the building 1s a small stone grill nearby.
People
- Spillmas owner (newspaper editor (Frances Cook))