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Yosemite Valley Road cont.
246 House early 20th
roof stone and sh
probably built as
received
date entered
OMIt No 1074-00113
Lip- 10-31-84
7 Page 5.5
245 .Clarmar, also White House ca 1900 with later alterations; Warrington
G. Laurence of Detroit, ar chitect: An imposing 2½-story, hip-roof,
high-style Colonial Revival dwelling trimmed with pibasters and rnodil
lion cornices. Its front veranda
now glazed with porte -cochere
extens ion is topped by a Cli i nose Chippendale roof balustrade altered
from its original form with balusters and has a central, curved,
Tuscan-column projection in front of a shallow central entrance
pavilion. The entrance pavi lion is topped by a pediment containing
an oculus. This pediment is flanked on each side by a pedimented
dormer containing an arched window Paired exterior end chimneys
constructed of rubblestone are the only features that do not conform
with the sophisticated neo-cbassic al design of the building, which
now has extensive rear additions. The house
Clark of Newark and later became t he property
a prominent attorney who practiced in Newark
was built for William G.
of Chauncey G. Parker,
and Washington, D.C.
century: An asymmetrical, 1½-story, cross-gable
ingle cottage with a glass greenhouse wing. It was
the gardner’s cottage for Cbarmar see number 243.
NC 247 House early 20th century with later alterations: A low i-story,
hip-roof, stucco dwelling with a garage incorporated into its mass.
It resembles a mid-2Oth-century ranch-type tract house hut was
probably built as a garage and chauffeur’s cottage for one of the
large houses nearby. It is now a private residence.