201-03 Chester Avenue - Moorestown Historic District - Moorestown, NJ
N 39° 58.018 W 074° 56.573
18S E 504877 N 4424092
This is one of several "homes turned business duplex" which contribute to the Moorestown Historic District, lining Chester Avenue. Presently, this structure houses the Christian Science Reading Room on the right and an apartment on the left.
Waymark Code: WM41Z5
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2008
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Located at the corner of East Second Street and Chester Avenue, this is an unusual looking house. I found it hard to decipher where the original house began and where the additions took over, like a tumor. Nevertheless, it is deemed a contributing building. The narrative lists it has 201-203 but it seems they did away with the 203 as 201 was all I saw.
Located at the beginning of the residential section of 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.1860. 3-story, 3-register hip-roofed frame building, aluminum sided, Victorian door with applied ornament, shake pent, windows altered. Modillioned cornice with c.1900 2-story front addition (201) at corner of E. Second (used as a drug store in 1900s and '10s). #201 - picture window at first floor, tripartite window above. Bracketed cornice, ,flat roof. - Contributing.”
