Sunday, February 26, 2012


 One house at a time:
Listed in the National Register of Historic places #017 1507 Faraon Street .
One-story,one-bay,frame shotgun variant,built ca 1875,altered 1890 with the addition of a second story and Colonial Revival influence, and modified in cs.1935. Gable roof covered with asphalt shingles, with box cornice. Exterior walls covered with asbestos siding. Windows are 1/1 double-hung sashes, some in pairs, and a leaded/1 Queen Anne cottage window. Full-width, L-plan, hip roof porch supported by columns with Doric capitals. Entrance contains a three-light replacement door topped with a single-light transom. Vernacular Residential Structures. Owner was asking 10,000.00 last summer. Home has been stripped of copper and unoccupied for the past couple years. New roof (2-3 years old)
Photos show homes on both sides of 1507 Faraon. 1509 is abandoned and 1501-1503 is a duplex with great owners and renters

The Harris Addition Neighborhood Association was established in 1986 to achieve national historic designation for the neighborhoods. This was achieved for the Kemper neighborhood on September 20, 2002 and Harris neighborhood on January 13,2003. The neighborhood boundaries were drawn dependent on contributing properties remaining in the neighborhood at the time of the listing on the national historic register. To maintain the integrity of the association it was renamed the Harris-Kemper Historic Neighborhood Association in 2005.