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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form
Continuation sheet 46 item number 7
tVatch Hill Road cont. -
For NPS use only
received
date entered
Mit N,’ 1l-I 11111
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Page 47
Watch Hill toid. The rear elevation, facing Sequan Road, is -more
readily visible than the house’s facade. It has a shallow, endgambrel
ell at one end and a broad, hip-roof dormer unit at the
other end that rises two full stories above the first floor of the
main block. This tower-like mass contains-an off-center, arched
staircase window balanced by a picturesque array of asymmetrically
placed rectangular windows of varied size. The facade northerly
side has a recessed veranda sheltering a central entrance. The
house was built’ for a Miss Carras and was for a number of years the
summer residence of the Detrick sisters of Baltimore, daughters of
Jacob Stoll Detrick, a mechanical engineer and inventor who was
president of the Detrick Harvey Machine Company.
208 Merrivale 1903 : A Modern Colonial
gambrel roof containing its second s
end to the street on a lot at the co
fronting on Watch [hill’ Road contains a
enclosed with screens . On the flan
a small 1-story projection and a long
roof central unit that rises to a full
windows have been repi aced with modern
AUWTNNET AVENUE
209 York House ca
roof, side-hall
pyramidal-roof
modern 1-story,
of the original wind
The house was owned
dwell ing with a massive flank
tory and attic. It is oriented
rner of Popon Road. The end
recessed Tuscan-column porch
k facing Popon Road there is
shed dormer with a small hip-
3-story height. Some of the
sash.
1845 with additions
-plan Greek Revival
ca 1895
dwelling
A 2½- story, end -gable -
with a 3-story octagonal
corner tower added in the lat e 19th century and a
flat-roof side add ition with a pict ure wn dow. All
ows have been replaced with modern casement sash.
by J.C. York in the late 19th century.
210 Fairview l870s: A
with a front veranda
1½-story, mansard-roof-,’ side-hall-plan cottage
an off-center front gambrel, a side gambrel
projecting
mansard .
out heart
over a si de hay window, and shed-hooded dorme rs in the
ftc g a in bre i S a me trimmed w I thi bargeboa i-ds con ta in i ng cut
and cross shapes . For many years th is was the res i deuce
of’ Postmaster W.N. York.
211 Hunt
roo F
Cottage, later Greycote
dwell ing iv i th a cent ml
ca 1850:
cut r ance
A 2½-story, Flank-gahle
end-gable
dormers,
rear dl.
projection containing a
overhanging eaves trimmed
The exterior is covered
board and clapboard siding. Origin
house was altered for Dudley Phelps
, a front veranda, a central
bay window over the veranda, gabled
with bargehoards, and a 1½-story
with a combination of verticalally
built for Dr. Hunt, the
in 1902
See Continuation Sheet #47