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1520 Hermitage Court

2006 (DC Tax Photo) (Below in italics is from the 2005 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) William E. Griffin House. 1 1⁄2-story Dutch Colonial Revival-style house with a gambrel roof and exterior end chimneys. The lower story is brick, with weatherboarded upper walls. Other features are 6-over-6 sash windows, a...
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1518 Hermitage Court

1999 (DC Tax Photo) (Below in italics is from the 2005 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Charles R. Skinner House. 1 1⁄2-story gable-and-wing brick Tudor Cottage with a side chimney with paired chimney pots, a batten door, gabled dormers, and 6-over-6 sash windows. The prominent front gable and the side gables...
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1516 Hermitage Court

1999 (DC Tax Photo) Richard E. Elmore House. 1 1⁄2-story side-gabled brick Tudor Cottage with a front shed dormer with half-timbered treatment and gabled dormers. Other features are 6-over-6 sash windows, a recessed corner porch with heavy timber posts, and a 1-story side wing with a bay window with a concave roof. Richard E. Elmore, cashier at...
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1410 Arnette Ave.

05.12.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber) (Below in italics is from the 2005 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Lee Roy Gattis House. Substantial 2-story Tudor Revival-style house with clinker brick walls and large metal casements with diamond-paned transoms on the first story. The upper story has half-timbered walls...
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Branson-Umstead House

1999 William Branson House. Picturesque 2-story Colonial Revival-style house. The main 2-story block has a side-gable slate roof, exterior end stone chimney, and an entrance set in a shed stone bay, with an ornate pilastered surround. In the angle between the façade and entrance shed is a bay window with a concave roof. At left is a French door...
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Odell-Andrews House

1999 (Below in italics is from the 2004 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Mrs. Clara Odell House. 2-story side-gable Colonial Revival-style house with exterior end chimneys, a recessed door with fanlight, paneled reveal and arched surround, and flanking bay windows with metal casements. Other windows are 8-over-8...
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Worth Newsome House

Worth-Newsom House

1999 (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Alex Worth House. 1 1⁄2-story Colonial Revival-style house with a side- gable roof with clipped gables, and front gabled wings that form a U- shaped footprint. Other features are a front shed dormer, an interior chimney, an entrance with...
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1601 Hermitage Ct.

1999 (From the NR listing; not verified) Frank M. Martin House. 2-story hip-roofed Colonial Revival/Craftsman-style house with stuccoed walls with corner stuccoed quoins, and wide eaves with exposed rafter tails. Other features are a pent roof across the first story that extends around the 1-bay entrance porch with fluted columns and a wood-railing...
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218 North Dillard Street - Brown House

~1890s (Courtesy Chris DiMattei.) If it isn't clear, the landscape is drawn in around the photograph of the house. The Dr. Joseph C. and Sallie G. Brown house was designed by architect George F. Barber and built at the corner of Holloway and North Dillard Streets in the 1890s. 1913 Sanborn map showing the large house at 218 N. Dillard. The odd...
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Barber, George Franklin

Date of birth
07.31.1854
Date of death
02.17.1915
Place of birth
DeKalb, IL
Place of death
Knoxville, TN
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