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circa 1905
Wilcox Graves House - 1905
1403 Olive
Street
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Wilcox-Graves House. 1403 Olive. One and-a-half-story wood-frame
dwelling; exterior walls with 117/121 siding; hip roof with
composition shingles; hip dormers; front elevation faces west;
interior brick chimney; wood-sash double-hung and fixed windows with
1/1 lights; single-door entrance; three-bay porch within front
projecting ell; Doric columns, slat-wood balustrade. Other
noteworthy features include single, large oval lights in entrance
door; narrow oval lights in sidelights; Doric pilasters on front
dormer; shingle siding on bases of Doric pilasters; molding over
windows; bay window on north elevation with angled corners and
stained glass in center window. Outbuildings include double garage
and storage building.
Primary area of significance: architecture. A good example of an
early twentieth century vernacular dwelling. D. P. Wilcox was part
owner of Wilcox Bros. Book and Jewelry Store. Former home of Judge
H. N. Graves. |
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circa 1909
1408 Olive
Street
M.C. Amos House
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Martin C.
Amos House. 1408 Olive. Two story wood-frame dwelling with Georgian
plan; exterior walls with weatherboard siding; gambrel roof with
composition shingles with extended eaves; front elevation faces
east; two exterior stone chimneys with corbeled cap; wood-sash
double-hung windows with 12/1 lights; single-door entrance with
transom and sidelights; three-bay porch inset within east elevation;
porch is supported by inverted-taper box columns that rest on stone
pedestals; bay openings of porch spanned with triangular arches;
long, shed-roof dormer with exposed rafter ends on east and west
elevations; second floor of north and south elevations with
wood-shingle siding; house rests on stone foundations; carport
extends from south elevation. Outbuildings include a small frame
garage with board-and-batten construction.
Primary
area of significance: architecture. One of Belford's more unusual
residences-one of three houses in Georgetown with gambrel roof.
Martin Amos was a professor at Southwestern University. |
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circa 1885
1409 Olive
Street - 1885
Home of Judge Harry graves
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see historical marker write up
This home was common in Georgetown during the
1880 and 1900s. The Irvine Lumber Company incorporated Victorian
ornamentation using spindle frieze and turned post balustrade. This home is
only one of two known to built by the lumber company
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circa 1913
1307 Olive
Street
DK
Wilcox House
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D. K. &
Inez Wilcox House. 1307 Olive. Two-story wood-frame dwelling;
exterior walls with weatherboard siding; hip roof with composition
shingles; front elevation faces west; two interior brick chimneys;
wood-sash double-hung windows with 1/1 lights; single-door entrance
with transom and sidelights; one-story three-bay porch with hip roof
L-shape in south and west elevations; Doric columns on brick piers,
slat-wood balustrade. Other noteworthy features include transom,
sidelights and entry door lights divided into small squares and
rectangles of beveled glass; crown molding on window facings of
first floor; louvered shutters on western and some southern windows.
Outbuildings include wood-frame double garage.
Primary
area of significance: architecture. A good example of an early
twentieth century Belford-built dwelling. D. K. Wilcox was part
owner of Wilcox Bros. Book & Jewelry Store. |
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