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National Register of Historic Places
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Continuation sheet 24 Item number 7 Paqe 25
MISQUAMICUT ROAD
101 Cloverly 1900; Horace Fraser of Boston, architect: An oversize
bungalow-type dwelling with a massive roof encompassing its second
floor and attic. The roof is unusual in -form, with a straight gable
slope i.n front, broken by a broad cross-gambrel, and an angled gambrel
slope in the rear, broken by shed dormers - The front slope sweeps
down to cover a recessed veranda, now glazed in - There are two rear
ells: one set off-center, perpendicular to the main mass, 1½ stories
tall with a gambrel roof; the other running along the back of the main
mass, extending beyond the end of the house to terminate in a hiproof
sun porch - The house was built for William Procter arid Will jam
Anderson, developers of the Potter Farm tract, as a speculative rental
cottage. lt was later occupied by Frank La*son.
102 Edgewater, now Gulnare 1913 : A 2½-story, flank-jerkin-bread- roof,
English cottage-style dwelling - Tt has a central column-framed, re
cessed entrance; hay windows, deep eaves that curl up over the secondstory
windows, eyebrow dormers , a massive stone end chimney, and a
recessed, stone-post rear porch. The house was built for C. Peyton
Russell of Washington, DC. -
103 Dune Hame , now Fin-lea 1902 : A fine Modern Colonial dwel.l.i ng wi th
a massive flank-gambrel roof containing the second story and attic.
- Its central entrance is sheltered by a U-shape wraparound veranda,
surmounted in the front by a central pediment -gabled dormer that is
surrounded by hip-roof second-floor and attic dorniers. There are
paired interior brick- chimneys and a Palladian attic window in the
south gambrel end. The house was built as a summer residence -for
Sylvester C - Dunham of Hartford, pres ident of the Travelers’ Insurance
Company and vice-president of the National Exchange Bank.
104 Westwater 1902: A 2½-story, L-plan, hip-roof dwelling with stringcourse
detail ing between floors, deep eaves w.i th stick bracketing, and
hi1iped dormers - An entrance porch is set into the interior angle
of the ‘‘L,’ and there is a 2-story, flat-roo.f addition, similarly
deta iled, extending from the end of the wing parallel to the road -
The house was built for George N - McLanahan , a newspaperman from
Washington, D.C. see numbers 11, 152, and 166.
NC 105 House l920s ? with later alterati ons : A simple I -story, L-pI an,
hip-roof structure with a modern picture window and sliding plateglass
doors among other types of fenestration. Now a residence,
this building was originally a garage and was converted to its
present use in the late 20th century.
See Continuation Sheet /25