7 Lafayette Street - Downtown Washington Historic District - Washington, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 33.623 W 091° 00.670
15S E 673284 N 4269868
this house classified as a "D-3" in this Historic District
Waymark Code: WMZ768
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2018
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County of building: Franklin County
Location of building: Lafayette St., 1st house S. of Front St., west side, Washington
Built: 1930
Classified: D-3 & commercial
District Map
"Some early 20th century designs in Washington began to show influence
of progressive ideals advocated nationally by architects who argued
against High Victorian picturesqueness and excessive ornament. In some
respects local builders and architects had never strayed far from these ideals, so that many of the new design elements blended easily with the old. ... Mid to late 1920s Bungalows form the largest group of new house designs citywide, and the District includes one example at 7 Lafayette. ... " ~ NRHP Nomination Form, PDF page 17
"Early Twentieth Century, circa 1905-1940. Coded D.
This group of twenty-one buildings includes numerous one and two-story commercial buildings, four residential buildings, a gas station, depot, Masonic Lodge, and a parochial school. All show influence of progressive 20th century design traditions, including Craftsman, Bungaloid, Art Deco and Moderne. The Craftsman aesthetic is best expressed in the 1923 depot (Photo # 6, left) with its overhanging
eaves supported by large wood brackets and rectangular openings with
tripart upper sash; and in several commercial/residential buildings
which feature facades with glazed brick or terra cotta patterning along with terra cotta stringcourses and cornice coping. These buildings usually employ rectangular windows with tripart upper sash. The Masonic Lodge long with several other buildings (Photo #24) have corbeled brick cornices resembling Craftsman brackets; the earlier buildings (circa 1910) typically employ segmentally arched openings. Residential examples include a bungalow at 7 Lafayette, and a foursquare at 306 Elm. The 1934 St. Francis Borgia parochial school is an excellent example of Art Deco design featuring salmon color brick and terra cotta; the 1951 addition to the south replicates the materials and design of the original section. A few circa 1935-40 buildings are articulated in a more streamlined Moderne fashion, and typically are faced with light colored glazed brick trimmed with horizontal bands of darker brick." ~ NRHP Nomination form
"Residential (c. 1849 - 1930), Coded 3
This designation denotes fifteen buildings used only for residential
purposes (all are detached, single-family except for two detached,
multi-family), as well as numerous buildings which mix residential use
with commercial and a few which are institutional/residential or
industrial/residential and are doubled coded as such." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"Enclosed front porch, shed dormer, deeply overhanging eaves under side gable
Not present on 1926 Sanborn Map" ~ Washington Historic Survey Phase II-III, page 458