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1111 Wayne Avenue

• Queen Anne
• Sprawling, irregular plan with varied wall surfaces
• Patterned slate roof
• Double dormer windows
• Brick porch with eaves decorated with brackets
• Oval spider web window on side

The Queen Anne style was prominent from about 1880 until 1910, the period of greatest growth in South Park architecture. It is characterized by a roof with a steep pitch and irregular shape, the use of shingles, stucco or other decorative wall surfaces, a rambling, asymmetrical ground plan and an ornate one story porch.

825 Wayne Avenue

• Italianate storefront
• Deeply overhanging cornice
• Rectangular ground plan
• Classical pilasters separating display windows on street level
• Windows capped with keystone arches

809 Wayne Avenue

• Second Empire
• Mansard roof with patterned slate, copper flashing
• Dormer windows with pediments and finials
• Use of decorative dentils around windows
• Wrap around porch, perhaps later addition
• Stained glass window in side door

801 Wayne Avenue

• Victorian Italianate storefront, similar in detailing to storefront at other end of the block
• Ornate cornice
• High store windows separated by Doric pilasters
• Window caps with keystones
• Victorian Italianate buildings appear tall and square. They have low-pitched roofs with widely overhanging eaves, decorative brackets near the roof, and tall windows, usually with ornament at the top.

616, 612, 604 Hickory Street

• 1880s
• Victorian Vernacular cottages
• Similar in size, shape, plan, window placement, but with different porches and attic window shapes
• Porch on 612 done in stick style, without rounded ornament
• Porches on 616 and 604 more Eastlake in detailing, with the furniture-like spindle shapes typical of the style
• Victorian Vernacular cottages are one story dwellings, fairly small in scale. They typically have ornamented porches, which can be in any number of styles. This is not a high architectural style, but one susceptible to regional or personal variations.

SouthPark Green

This is one of the many parks which help give the neighborhood its name. The perennial, spring flower bulbs, trees and shrubs were planted by the neighborhood association and purchased through a city grant. The elevation and view of the city from South Park Green make it the perfect spot for neighbors to assemble and watch the city's fireworks display on the Fourth of July.

521 Hickory Street

• 1864
• Folk Victorian
• Built by Martin Schneble, a machinist who made railroad cars at Barney, Parker and Co.
• Gable front and wing arrangement
• L-shaped porch with turned spindle decoration
• Complete set of shutters
• Stained glass
• Large landscaped lot
• Folk Victorian homes are structures, like the Vernacular cottages above, which have some detailing typical of high style Victorian architecture but do not follow all of the "rules" for a particular style. They are divided into categories based on the shape of the roof and basic ground plan of the house. The gable front and wing designation on this home comes from the fact that the triangle front or gable of the roof faces the street and the wing to the rear gives the whole house an L shape.

500 Hickory Street, HopeLutheranChurch

• 1881-1902
• Gothic Revival with some Romanesque detail
• Pointed arches, towers with buttresses, peaked roof
• Romanesque heavy foundation blocks, banding on brickwork
• Stained glass windows with intricately shaped supports
• Gothic Revival buildings are most easily recognized by the pointed arches and sense of verticality given by the steeply pitched roof and towers.

45 Perrine Street

• Queen Anne, with typical in-and-out wall plane and differing wall surface treatments
• Projecting attic gable window
• Eastlake porch spindles; oddly shaped porch
• Brackets at corners of building

51 Perrine Street

• Craftsman
• Long, low porch with brick supports
• Emphasized roof line
• Stained glass in shaped gable window
• Craftsman style houses are marked by a very visible, low-pitched roof, long porches with wide brick supports, and wide eaves.

108 Perrine Street

• Queen Anne style
• Stick style gable ornament
• Projecting bay window on second level
• Elaborate wooden front door with sidelights
• Porch with arched entry

122 Perrine Street

• 1880
• Second Empire
• Jacob Unger home
• Patterned slate Mansard roof with molded cornices at top and bottom
• Italianate ornament in dormer windows: pediments, brackets and pilasters made of metal
• Limestone window surrounds with curved tops and keystones; shutters with tops that follow window curves
• Decorative brackets under overhang of roof
• Side bay window

The Second Empirestyle is most easily recognized by the characteristic Mansard roof. It is a formal-looking style with attic dormer windows and brackets under the eaves, and tends to have most of its architectural emphasis toward the top of the building.

206 Perrine Street

• 1873
• Queen Anne
• Fish scale gable shingles
• Classically inspired posts on porch
• Eastlake scroll and spindle work at corners of front bay
• Stained glass windows

225 Perrine Street

• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Porch with classical columns, turned spindles and side brackets
• Different wall treatments and wall levels
• Change of plane in gable, with brackets and dentil moldings
• Stained glass windows
• Palladian window on side

229 Perrine Street

• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Classical porch columns, with brackets and moldings and decoration in pediment
• Shingling in gables, also dentil moldings and changes in level
• Asymmetrical facade, with different window shapes in gables
• Ornament over front window reflects porch pediment
• Free Classic is a subtype of Queen Anne which utilizes the vocabulary of classical architecture in the decoration while retaining the irregular ground plan and varied wall surfaces of Queen Anne.

604 Oak Street

• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Neoclassical porch
• Side bay
• Palladian window in front

612 Oak Street

• Dutch Colonial Revival
• Front-facing gambrel roof with cross-gambrel
• Neoclassical porch
• Dagger shaped window in attic
• Recessed front door with one sidelight

The Dutch Colonial Revival style is typical of the period from about 1890 to 1920. It is marked by the gambrel roof, or roof with a pointed top and flared sides which is characteristic of the original Dutch Colonial style of New York and New Jersey.

433 Oak Street, UnitedMethodistChurch

• Dedicated 1886
• Romanesque Revival
• Heavy looking facade with large limestone blocks in foundation
• Multiple towers of various shapes, heights and roof types
• Different varieties of brick and stone
• Doors and windows with semicircular tops
• Stained glass
• Romanesque Revival or Richardson Romanesque buildings were made popular in the U.S. through the work of Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson. These buildings, popular from about 1880 to 1900, looked for inspiration to the medieval European Romanesque style, which is marked by semi circular arches in windows and doors, the use of irregular ground plans, and towers and turrets. Romanesque and Romanesque Revival structures are always made of masonry and look very solid, almost forbidding.

224/226 Bonner Street

• Queen Anne double, with related but not matching sections
• Steep pitch of hipped roof
• Weather vane at pinnacle of roof
• Slate shingling in left front gable; wooden shingles in side bay gables
• Design of inset brick near slate gable
• Ornate window top decoration

220 Bonner Street

• Folk Victorian
• Projecting center front section with stone decoration
• Ornate attic window on front
• Ornament near roof of side bay
• Limestone window sills and tops
• Eastlake front and side porches

201 Johnson Street

• Folk Victorian
• Simple brick with shutters, two porches and wooden addition
• Front porch very ornate with dentils, brackets, balls, spindles, cutouts, scrollwork, posts and a balustrade
• Rear, inset porch has scroll work, turned spindles and balustrade

This is a good example of the common practice of adding a frame addition to a brick house. The addition replaces the original "summer kitchen" and in this case, provided an opportunity to create a new porch with a sympathetic relationship to the front entry porch.

114 Bonner Street

• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Porch with classical detailing
• Porch columns on high brick bases
• Front bay window with ornamented window tops and brackets at bay cornice
• Detail painted out at side gable

108 Bonner Street

• Queen Anne
• Various wall surfaces, with clapboard broken by areas of shingling
• Stick style pattern in front gable, surrounding three multiple-pane attic windows
• Side gable has different pattern with three arched windows
• Porch with classical dentil molding
• Side bay
• New stained glass in doors

The term stick style refers to the use of ornamental wooden elements which form patterns of curves and diagonals. Unlike the ins and outs of the carvings of Eastlake decoration, the individual elements retain a stick-like appearance, giving the style its name.

100 Bonner Street

• 1878
• Main door one of few original pieces left after years of hard use

Built as a corner grocery store. This structure has a varied history: at various times it has been a Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, the home of the Central Church of the Nazarene, and 3 apartments. It has recently been returned to its original function as a neighborhood small business

100 Bonner represents a once-common neighborhood structure: the small business at street level originally with housing for the proprietor above. In horse-and-buggy days when the most of the homes in the neighborhood were built, such neighborhood businesses supplied the daily needs of the residents.

44 Bonner Street

• Queen Anne
• Various wall treatments and planes
• Cross-gabled porch with sunburst over entrance and neoclassical supports
• Unusual shape and configuration of attic window
• Stained glass window in front, with three part design and ornament below

333-323 Hickory Street

• Row houses, with two end units projecting
• Careful rhythms of porches and windows
• High limestone block foundation

This is an example of a common solution to the problem of designing homes for narrow urban lots: the row house or town house. The long, connected blocks of masonry with their individual entrances provide a strong street presence.

317 Hickory Street

• Apartment house with a Spanish or Mission flavor
• Tile roof with a flattened pitch
• Squared brick piers with decorative brickwork
• Two level porches

Styles which refer to the Spanish architecture of the Southwest include the Mission, Spanish Colonial and Spanish Eclectic. These buildings commonly have tile roofs, are built of stone or stucco, and repeat rounded shapes in the design. They occur mostly in the California area, but there are isolated examples throughout the country.

301 Hickory Street

• Italianate
• Storefront on corner, with house wing attached
• Prominent bracket decoration at roof line
• Classical pilasters dividing store windows
• Storefront entrance angled at corner
• Eastlake porch at rear entrance
• Wrought iron decoration at first and second levels
• Limestone arches with keystones above windows

137 Morton Street

• First mention of house on lot 1852; some elements c1885
• Prominently positioned at end of street
• High limestone wall
• Double story porch across facade, with brackets at top and balustrade below
• Second level balcony on front perhaps added on: a two level front porch is not unusual but the balcony attached to the wall, rather than the porch posts, is rare
• Inset porch at rear
• Dentil decoration over windows
• Shingles in gable

243 Morton Street

• Folk Victorian
• Very elaborate Eastlake gable ornament on brick home
• Prominent front finial
• Limestone ornament around double attic windows
• Two Eastlake side porches

 House seems low and cozy because of visual weight of gable ornament and long proportions of windows, which bring them close to the ground

245 Morton Street

• Folk Victorian with Eastlake ornamentation
• Elaborate spindlework on porch, with arches, brackets, beads, dentils, curves and balustrades
• Front bay enhanced by corner brickwork, an emphasized cornice with brackets and dentils, and hoods and spindles over the side windows
• Queen Anne style windows, with a large central pane surrounded by smaller panes, often in stained glass.
• Shingling in attic gable
• Unusually elaborate wrought iron fence.
• Eastlakeornament is named after Charles Eastlake, an English furniture designer who produced furniture with turned spindles and other decorative devices. His furniture became the basis for a style of elaborate architectural ornament also referred to as gingerbread. Eastlake himself deplored the use of his ornament designed for furniture on buildings, but it became a popular way to add some visual interest to otherwise plain domestic architecture.

336 Oak Street

• Victorian Vernacular cottage with Eastlake porch decoration
• Prominent position at end of street
• Nicknamed the 'Witch's Cottage' because of the turreted porch with finial on top, shaped like a witch's hat
• Repeated use of architectural beadwork on porch and in gables
• Porch combines turned spindles, beads, and brackets in an undulating shape

312 Oak Street

• Folk Victorian
• L-shaped plan with elaborate entry porch
• Brackets, spindles, fans and a balustrade call attention to densely decorated front porch
• Less elaborate rear porch
• Subtle ornament over windows

258 Oak Street

• c1860
• Italianate storefront
• Once Hirsch Brothers grocery store
• Neoclassical supports around original store windows
• Brackets emphasize roof line
• Decoration above windows characteristic of Italianate style
• Porthole windows on side
• Rear wing still functions as residence, as it was meant to do when the original business was built

242 Oak Street

• 1860s
• Once Julius Reichmann Wine and Beer Saloon
• Condemned 1986
• Rehabbed by South Park Preservation Works, a non profit Neighborhood Development Corporation
• Now headquarters for local Community Based Policeman
• Windows used to display neighborhood artifacts

This is an example of the work of a Neighborhood Development Corporation, or NDC. These nonprofit organizations rehabilitate structures which would otherwise continue to deteriorate. The South Park NDC was the first in the city.

228 Oak Street

• 1880s
• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Neoclassical porch supports
• Front bay emphasized with corner brickwork and prominent gable at top

44 Park Drive

• 1850s
• Victorian Vernacular cottage
• Board-and-batten cedar siding
• Original carriage house in rear

126 Park Drive

• 1885-86
• Victorian Italianate
• Built by John S. Stoecklin, merchant and purveyor of fine cigars
• Mansard roof
• Prominent cornice with brackets
• Paired classical porch posts
• Pressed tin lintels over windows
• Limestone banding

222 Park Drive

• c1906
• American Four Square
• Palladian windows in gables
• Neoclassical, off center porch with high flight of steps
• Brickwork emphasizes corners
• Small side bay

The American Four Square is a type which was popular just before and after the First World War. It is blocky in plan, with a shallow roof usually containing dormers and an emphasized doorway.

228 Park Drive

• 1902
• Queen Anne
• Built by William Francis Connoly for Charles Haines, a Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agent, and his wife Emma
• Renovated by D P & L as a service to acquaint the public with energy efficient ideas for older houses
• In-and-out walls and varied surfaces
• Neoclassical porch, with paired porch posts on high bases
• Second level inset porch off master bedroom
• Handmade gazebo in back yard

236 Park Drive

• Queen Anne
• Varied wall textures and planes
• Clustered porch supports on high bases
• Oddly shaped porch columns, which get narrower at bottom
• Brackets at roof line of porch and second level
• Multiple roof shapes, including tower-like arrangement in front and dutch gambrels at sides
• Leaded glass and spider web oval window

259 Park Drive

• Italianate
• Shallow roof pitch
• Wrap around front porch with neoclassical porch posts on high bases and turned spindle balustrades
• Corner porch turret
• Rear porch with Eastlake style scrolls and other ornament
• Cornice emphasized by brackets
• Ornamental panels above windows

309 Park Drive

• Queen Anne
• Wall planes move in and out
• Limestone segmented arches over second story front windows
• Palladian attic window with leaded glass and keystone above center arch
• Second story front bay, with large bracket near corner and revealed beams over bay
• Porch with projecting pavilion and clustered Doric columns

320 Park Drive

• c1896
• Queen Anne
• Built by Louis D. Pooch, owner of a local lumber mill, for resale
• Elaborate porch, with detail in appropriate color scheme
• Queen Anne windows
• Patterned shingles and sunburst in front gable

329-331 Park Drive

• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Patterned wall surfaces
• No single prominent wall plane
• Neoclassical porch columns, clustered in groups, on two level porch
• Large front entry door with sidelights
• Windows in various shapes and sizes, including new, out of scale windows in front gable

 334 Park Drive

• c1915
• Craftsman
• Art Deco stained glass and windows
• Long slope of roof gives house unusual and characteristic silhouette
• Porch supports squared, paired, and on very high bases
• Ribbon window in attic dormer
• Pattern of siding on home echoes predominant horizontal emphasis
• Elaborate front door and door surround

348 Park Drive

• Queen Anne
• Various wall surfaces: shingles in gable
• Unusually shaped and decorated attic window
• Wrap around porch on lower level with balustrade and emphasized half-height porch posts
• Inset porch at second story

Park Drive Boulevard

The center portion of Park Drive is an ongoing neighborhood project designed to return this space to its turn-of-the-century elegance. Benches, period lighting, brick paths, iron fencing and flower gardens have all been added to the space thanks to a city grant and gifts from individuals and corporations. The first and last blocks have been completed, and the center portion has been designed. Watch for future progress!

350 Park Drive

• c1900
• Colonial Revival
• Perhaps earliest example of Colonial Revival architecture in city
• Built of Louis B. Keyer and his wife Clara. Keyer sold intricately designed, wood inlaid cigar boxes from his factory on Xenia Avenue
• Once used as a nursing home
• Symmetrical, box-shaped building
• Classical ornament at roof line
• Ornamented dormer window in hipped roof
• Neoclassical porch extending nearly whole length of facade
• Corners emphasized by brickwork
• Curved shape of top of door and center second story window line up with dormer and emphasize center axis

The Colonial Revival style was popular all over America from roughly 1880 until 1955, peaking in popularity in the 1920s. It is a formal and balanced style, with the doorway emphasized and a common use of the language of classical architecture

358 Park Drive

• 1825
• Federal, with additions
• Simple front section, with accented entry, six-over-six windows and thick cornice typical of Federal style
• Original structure slightly "Victorianized" with a wooden shingled gable holding an ornamented three part window
• Lower wooden frame addition with inset porch followed by second addition in brick