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Heritage Register 610 St. Charles Street (ex-608 St. Charles St) For: Herbert & Harriet Wilson ARCHITECTURE: This large 2-storey Arts & Crafts California Bungalow is very reminiscent of the architecture of Greene & Greene in Pasadena, CA. It features multiple low-pitched gables and wide, extensively-bracketed eaves. The low porch has a porte-cochère to the right with a flat roof forming a balcony above. It rests on decorative brick piers. The timber brackets are stacked and braced. Many beam-ends are rounded instead of the more usual pyramid shape. The brick with every fourth course emphasized is carried through on the entire first floor. The second floor is shingled. The garden façade has a broad brick porch with pergola roof to the right side, an angled bay in the middle with a gabled open porch above and a gabled, full-height extension at the left side. Windows are grouped casements, divided near the top with a horizontal muntin in a cloud lift design made famous by Greene & Greene, and harkening back to the strong Japanese influence on the California Bungalow. Brick chimneys are corbelled and have parged caps. |
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