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1824 Maine Street

Item

Address

1824 Maine Street

Original Owners's Name

Charles and Olive Nichols

Previous Owner's Names

Tony and Signe Oakley

Year of Construction

1895

Style of Architecture

Queen Anne style

Structure Description

The house is a two and a half story brick construction with a hexagon tower. The brick at the corners of the tower interlace. The house has a slate roof with twin chimneys. The facade has protruding brickwork design with elaborate dentil border. A large one story porch wraps around the tower and continues across the facade and turns the west corner to the porte-cochere. The two dormers on the north elevation are visually connected to windows below by a break in the roofline. There is a panel of decorative wood between the windows. The house also has decorative down spouts.