129 Chester Avenue - Moorestown Historic District - Moorestown, NJ
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
N 39° 58.002 W 074° 56.561
18S E 504894 N 4424062
This is one of many contributing homes to the Moorestown Historic District which line Chester Avenue. Most of these homes are extremely huge and heavily landscaped compared to their Main Street counterparts, less than a half mile away.
Waymark Code: WM41YZ
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
Views: 3

Located at 217 Chester Avenue a few hundred feet or so from downtown Moorestown, this is one of 351 contributing buildings/structures to this historic district.

The Department of the Interior sent me the following narrative/information on this house:
"c.1800. 2 1/2 story, 5-register Federal-style house, clapboarded. Central entrance; porch-fronted with fluted Doric columns and heavy entablature. 8-panel door, 3-light transom and side lights, dog-eared surround. Windows 6/6 double hung. entablature lintels, paneled shutters at first floor, louvered at second. Modillioned cornice, standing seam metal roof, three segmented-arched dormers. Interior end chimneys fronted by balcony. Side 1-story addition. - Contributing.

Name of Historic District (as listed on the NRHP): Moorestown Historic District

Link to nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com page with the Historic District: [Web Link]

Address:
129 Chester Avenue Moorestown, NJ 08057


How did you determine the building to be a contributing structure?: Other (Please explain in the Private Message field)

NRHP Historic District Waymark (Optional): Not listed

Optional link to narrative or database: Not listed

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