Sutor House - Cattell Tract Historic District - Merchantville, NJ
N 39° 57.307 W 075° 03.112
18S E 495569 N 4422777
Not too sure how this out of place house ever got to be here. I'd imagine the neighbors weren't too thrilled with how much the architecture deviated from established norms along the road. Still, it is a lovely house which does not distract.
Waymark Code: WMHM3Y
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:
40 - Sutor House
Built 1905. 2 1/2-story, 2-bay, American Foursquare frame house, stone foundation, aluminum sided. Full-width porch, Tuscan columns on stone bases. Sidelighted, glazed and paneled door. Windows 1/1 double hung, metal louvered shutters. Hipped dormers, asphalt hipped roof, brick exterior chimney. 1-bay, frame modern garage. - Contributing (Section 7, Page 25) SOURCE