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516 Ottawa Ave.

This one-story, three-bay, double-pile simplified Queen Anne-style house is nearly identical in form to the B. O. Vaughn House as 512 Ottawa Avenue indicating possible construction by the same person, perhaps as investment properties. The earliest known resident is John H. Malone in 1919. By 1924, the house was occupied by Mrs. Minnie Ellis, widow of C. H. Ellis.
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616 N. Queen St.

06.19.12 This one-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and triple-pile. The house has a stuccoed brick foundation, vinyl siding, and an asphalt-shingled roof. The engaged front porch is supported by replacement wood posts on brick piers with a replacement modern rail. The house has replacement six-over-one windows on the façade, one-over-one...
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614 N. Queen St.

06.19.12 A one-story, hip-roofed house, this building is identical in form to its neighbors at 612 and 616 N. Queen Street. The house is three bays wide and triple-pile with a brick foundation, wood weatherboards, and a standing-seam metal roof. There is a small hip-roofed dormer on the front façade that has been covered with vinyl siding...
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612 N. Queen St.

06.19.12 This one-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and triple-pile. The house has a stuccoed concrete block foundation under the porch, vinyl siding, and an asphalt-shingled roof. The house has a hipped front dormer with a small rectangular vent. The engaged front porch is supported by modern square posts with modern replacement rails...
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506 Mallard Ave.

This three-bay, single-pile, one-story house is typical of the early twentieth-century vernacular. Tax records indicate construction in 1920, but T. J. Mangum is the earliest known resident in 1924.
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507 Mallard Ave.

The Mrs. Martha J. Bowles House is a one-story, hip-roofed Colonial Revival-style house with an impressive engaged front porch. The porch is supported by large, square, fluted columns and pilasters with simple square caps and has a tall, weatherboarded porch span and replacement rail. Mrs. Bowles is recorded as living here in 1919. In 1915, she lived at 1010 Burch Avenue.
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505 Mallard Ave.

This one-story, side-gabled Craftsman bungalow has a shed-roofed front dormer, a full-width engaged front porch, and knee brackets in the side gables. It was first occupied by J. J. Riddle and Riddle’s Bakery in 1924. David D. Riddle, likely a descendant, lived there in 1934 and 1939.
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503 Mallard Ave.

This one-story, hip-roofed house has a centered front gable with rectangular vent and a hip-roofed front porch. The earliest known resident was OW Beck in 1919-1920.
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501 Mallard Ave.

This large, side-gable Craftsman bungalow with gabled front dormer is the largest remaining house on this block of Mallard Avenue. One of the most impressive houses on this block, it was occupied in 1924 by William B. Walters, a master mechanic. Walters remained in the house until at least 1939.
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502 Mallard Ave.

A typical one-story, triple-A-roofed house, the Satterwhite-Johnson House stands on the southeast corner of Mallard and Oakwood Avenues. Two shed-roofed additions extend from the rear of the house. Earliest known residents include the Satterwhite and Johnson Families concurrently in 1911. The house was renovated in 2008-2010.
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