Wilson House (N. Centre St.) - Cattell Tract Historic District - Merchantville, NJ
N 39° 57.361 W 075° 02.980
18S E 495757 N 4422876
Here is a splendid Queen Anne-style frame house with Tuscan columns supporting a beautiful covered porch highlighted by an upper balcony with matching balustrades to the porch.
Waymark Code: WMHM4K
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:
213 - Wilson House
Built 1896. 2 1/2-story, asymmetrical, Queen Anne-style frame house, stone foundation, aluminum sided. Full-width porch with canted corner entry, Tuscan columns on brick bases, spindled rail. Transomed main entry, glazed and ornately paneled double doors, secondary single, glazed and paneled door. Windows 1/1 double hung. 2-bay gabled front, hipped main volume, gabled cross wing. Spindled rail at second floor balcony. Side 2-story polygonal bay. Slate shingled roof, exterior end brick chimney. 2-story, 3- bay, board and batten, hipped roof carriage house, second floor loft door, ventilator. - Contributing (Section 7, Page 33) SOURCE
Address
Cattell Tract Historic District
Wilson House
213 North Centre Street
Merchantville, NJ 08109
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