325 Chester Avenue - Moorestown Historic District - Moorestown, NJ
N 39° 58.151 W 074° 56.656
18S E 504759 N 4424338
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: WM422V
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2008
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The front of this home is
heavily guarded by thick landscaping and lush trees. It was very difficult to get a full frontal picture, so I had to go off to the side. Such a shame the current owners choose to hide their home. landscaping will often out live its usefulness after about 12 years or so; clearly this is the case. it is doubtful the original architects intended for their work to be hidden from sight.
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.1900. 2 ½ story Arts and Crafts-style house. Stone at first floor, wood shingles above. Gabled front, porch with heavy tapering stone columns, massive brackets supporting front and side gables of porch. Front (main) gable with stick detail. Stone stoops, double glazed and paneled entrance doors, segmented-arched transom. First floor - one 8/1 double hung window with jack-arch lintel, one polygonal bay, 4/1 double hung. Second floor 8/1 double hung, shutters with partially crossed stick detail, partially louvered. Modillioned cornice, above are heavy brackets that rest below cornice of gable. Tripartite window under gable with small light at garret. Exposed overhang, side dormers. Carriage house garage also of stone and shingle. - Contributing.”
