126 Leslie Avenue - Cattell Tract Historic District - Merchantville, NJ
N 39° 57.280 W 075° 03.167
18S E 495491 N 4422727
A uniquely early-twentieth-century form, this bungalow is present on Leslie Avenue amidst several front-gambreled, Dutch Colonial Revival-style dwellings. This home represent the latter part of the historic district's development.
Waymark Code: WMHKZB
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
The narrative for this property reads as follows:
c. 1920, 1½-story, 3-bay, bungalow, stucco over masonry. Heavy stone porch columns. Central side delighted door flanked by 8/1 double hung windows. Butt shingled dormer fenestrated by three windows with multipane upper lights pierces asphalt shingled gabled roof. Exterior end stone chimney. 2-bay stuccoed masonry garage with sliding doors and gabled asphalt roof. - Contributing (Section 7, Page 37) SOURCE