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Continuation sheet 34 Item number 7 Page 35
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152 Windridge and Windvale 1916: A pair bf 2½-story, stone and shingle
Shingle Style dwellings linked by a 1-story, flat-roof rubblestone
connecting wing. Its architectural vocabulary is drawn from English
manor houses. Beth houses are L-shaped -in plan. - WindTidge has a
hip roof on one wing intersecting a gable roof on its other wing,
while lvindvale is covered by intersecting gable roofs. The houses
have asymmetrical fenestration and asymmetrically placed, massive
slab chimneys of stone. The ensemble is built into a hillside so
the houses are 3½ stories tall at the rear. This picturesque complex
was built for Mrs. George W. McLanahan, the wife of a Washington, D.C.,
newspaperman see numbers 11, -104 and 166. - -
153 El Reposo 1900-01;
Mission style dwell
has an L-shape plan
side win
arches,
original
E.F. Gilbert of New York, architect: A large
ing with stucco walls and pantile hip roofs. it
g. A
and a
comprising a 2½-story frontal wing an d a 1½-story
projecting entrance porch with heavy piers, segmental
shaped roof parapet the last-named now lacking its
applied Spanish Baroque orname ntation partly
the "L" and. connects
to a recessed
fills the
segmental -arcade
of the side wi.n g. The frontal wing has a deep
window on it s faca de and filigreed vergehoard
At the rear of th e house, a square, belfry- like
the roofs an d thei r hipped dormers. This turret
wit h unusual hip ju ts forming deep square-plan
was built for George L. Babcock of Pla infield,
of the Babcock f Wil cox Boiler Company see
-interior corner of
porch in the front
semi -octagonal hay
tr liii at the eaves -
turret rises above
has a demical roof
eaves. ‘the house
New Jersey, president
number 129 -
NC 154 Building ca 1925-30 with later alterations : A 1-story, hip-reef,
- pink-painted stucco structure that was originally -a garage for El
- fteposo number 153 hut is now a residence. It has an off-center
front porch and asymmetrical fenestration combining original and
- modern replacement windows. It resembles a small ranch-type dwelling
oF the l950s or 1960s . - -
1 55 Over look 1902-03: A 2½-- story
Colonial Revi val and Craftsman
hi I Is ide. the house comprises
on each side by splayed wings.
inent level in the central block
Colonial Revival portico topped
There is a Palladian motif over
horizontal -hand triple window a
hi p - roof Sh i hg Ic Style dwell i rig w i th
elements, set into a gently sloping
a nar row - Front cent ra I h I oc k ft an he 4
e ma i n en t ran cc i s p I aced at base -
beneath a square-pier, flat-roof
by an interlace roof balustrade.
the
hove
portico and a diamond-pane,
the Pal lad ian met i f - One wing
See Cont i nuat ion Sheet U 35