615 Chester Avenue - Moorestown, NJ
N 39° 58.420 W 074° 56.820
18S E 504525 N 4424835
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: WM42E1
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 06/27/2008
Views: 30
95 percent of these homes on Chester Avenue contribute to the historic district status of Moorestown. Of these fifty or so homes, a handful of them were built using the Victorian-style architecture.
The conical roof, or, a big giant cone protruding from the right of the house, skyward, is a very unique feature of this house and is certainly what will catch your eye at first. There is a historic plaque on the front of the house, to the right of the door, naming this as #50 of contributing structures (see picture). Located at 615 Chester Avenue a quarter mile 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.1890. 2 ½ story Shingle Style house. Pedimented central composition with 3-story turret with shake conical roof to south side. Pedimented porch entry, Tuscan columns; porch wraps around curve of turret; turned balustrade. Paneled Dutch door with ornate hardware. various fenestration, balustraded balcony at second floor, casement sash in front pedimented gable, polygonal dormer projects from asphalt shingled roof. - Contributing.”
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