Purple Queen Anne House - Cattell Tract Historic District - Merchantville, NJ
N 39° 57.241 W 075° 03.011
18S E 495713 N 4422654
This Queen Anne-style house is a typical representation of the Victorian architecture which comprises this historic district. The home is in beautiful shape and is unusual as it now features as stone bottom.
Waymark Code: WMHKZ8
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2013
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I took a 2 hour walk of this incredible and little known town/jewel. There are countless examples of wonderful Victorian architecture which is the mainstay for this historic district. I went to the borough hall and picked up a brochure entitled A Walking Tour of the Cattell Tract, A National Registered Historic District. Inside the pamphlet, there are 15 examples of contributing structures with a wide range of diversity so as to allow the visitor to have a complete flavor of the district. There are a total of 174 buildings in the district. While I was unable to procure a list on this day, the borough folks told me contributing houses (everyone from the 1890s) have markers indicating the date of construction and the original homeowner's name. There are many contributing structures without the markers, but, I only documented the ones with the markers so as to waymark them and provide suitable evidence for the contributing structures category. Recently however, the nomination form has been digitized and now all of the properties and narratives are available.
The complete nomination form with all the contributing structures and their narratives can be found HERE
I found this house to be odd as it incorporates some Colonial Revival traits into its design. The house also represents one of the last Victorian homes built at the tract.
The narrative for this property reads as follows:
c. 1900, 2 1/2-story, 5-bay, central cross gabled Queen Anne-style house. Stone first floor, scalloped shingles at second floor, stickwork in front and side gables. Colonial Revival pent above segmental-arched, sidelighted entry, flanking double hung windows with segmental-arched lintels and multipane upper lights. Second floor double hung windows, multipane upper lights, central stained glass window. Side porch, rectangular and polygonal bays, and 2/2 double hung windows. Asphalt roof, exterior brick chimney. 2-bay frame garage. - Contributing (Section 7, Page 15) SOURCE
Address
Cattell Tract Historic District
15 West Walnut Avenue
Merchantville, NJ 08109
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