W. Webster House (W. Walnut St.) - Cattell Tract Historic District - Merchantville, NJ
N 39° 57.230 W 075° 03.103
18S E 495582 N 4422634
There a few noteworthy examples of the Queen Anne style of Victorian architecture within this historic district, the W. Webster House being one of them. Check out the third-story turret that crowned by conical slate roof - totally awesome!
Waymark Code: WMHM4A
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 07/22/2013
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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:
41 - W. Webster House
Built 1893. 2 1/2-story, picturesque, asymmetrical, Queen Anne-style frame house, stone foundation, clapboarded first floor, scalloped shingles at second floor, double cove shingles in gables and third-story of corner turret that is crowned by conical slate roof. Front porch, turned posts and balustrade, pedimented entry embellished with sunburst motif mat is repeated in dormer. Glazed and paneled double doors, stained glass transom, thin lipped lintels above door and windows which are 1/1 double hung. Semielliptical tripartite window in front gable. Multipitched slate roof with finials. Side 2-story bay. - Contributing (Section 7, Page 16) SOURCE
Address
Cattell Tract Historic District
W. Webster House
41 West Walnut Street
Merchantville, NJ 08109
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