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Inventory-Nomination Form de!rftored - - -- -
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34 Former Fire Station 1910: A 2-story, unornamented brick structure
with a- modern low-pitch end-gable roof and modern aluminum-frame
windows. Built as -an engine house for the Watch Hill Fire District,
this building now houses a retail store,
35 Burdick Building ca 1910: A 1½- and 2½-story, L-plan
with intersecting jerkin-head roofs-and hip-Thnd jerkin
dormers. it has a wraparound turned-post veranda -on th
a recessed veranda in the flank wing; and a 2-story, fi
additi-pn on the end of the flank wing. Domestic in
has early 20th century storefronts shelterád by the
36 Drysdale Building ca 1915: A large 2½-story, end-gable-roof, Crafts
man style commercial block with deep overhanging eaves, extendedrafter
bracketing, and long shed dormers. It has a 2-story side
addition covered by a low-pitch flank-gable roof. A veranda-with
a roof balustrade runs across the front of the main block and the
addition, shelter lug the storefronts. The hull ding is now covered
with aluminum siding.
37 Lahphear’s Stable, now Holdredge’s Garage ca 1885 et seq.: A
rambling 2½-story structure composed of a large flank-gable-roof
block with a pair of asymmetrical end-gable-roof units at each end
of the facade and a range of three parallel end-gable-roof units
projecting from the rear. it has a large front dormer with a shed-roof
central section connecting paired end-gable sections. The
building is now covered with asbestos siding. it was built as a
livery stable its original stalls remain intact and now serves as
an auto garage. -
BLUFF AVENUE
building
-head-roof
e front wing;
at-roof -
&mpnen rance
verandas.
N.B. A portion’ of this street from numbers 38 to 48 inclusive is also
known as Larkin Road.
NC 38 Garage ca l920s: A 2-story, hip-roof structure with a 2-bay garage
occupying the first story and a residential apartment on the second
story.
39 House ca 1915: - A 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling set narrow end
the street, with a projecting shed-roof vestibule sheltering a
front-entrance and a shed-roof side veranda with square posts.
is now sheathed with aluminum siding.
See Continuation Sheet ff10
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