136 Harmon

1939

This one-and-a-half-story Minimal Traditional-style house has a brick foundation, asbestos-shingle siding, and a side-gable roof. Two gabled dormers on the front roof slope have six-over-six sash windows. A projecting front wing has a gable roof that is lower than the main roof and a bay window. An off-center brick chimney rises on the south side of the house. The four-bay-wide façade has a center entrance with a recessed doorway framed by a simple classical surround with a molded cornice. The door has wood panels on the lower two thirds with four narrow vertical lights in the upper third and is flanked by narrow sidelights. Eight-over-eight sash windows mark the two bays to the left of the entrance. The south bay – the projecting wing – features a six-light round window in the gable peak and a three-sided bay window with six-over-six sash windows on either side of an eight-over-eight sash window. The bay has a three-sided roof. Other windows of the house are six-over-six sash. Behind the chimney, a gable-roofed screened porch extends from the south side of the house. A low stone retaining wall lines the south side of the yard, curving around at the rear of the house to meet another stone retaining wall and stone steps to the upper back yard. The back yard, enclosed by shrubbery, is said to retain a shed-roofed chicken house, a brick bomb shelter, and a stone bird bath, but these features could not be seen and thus were not recorded.

Hugh and Helen Davis were the original owners of the house, purchasing the property in August 1939. Hugh Davis was a wholesale route supervisor for Southern Dairies. They lived here until selling the house in 1961 and moving to a new house on Reynolda Road. There they owned and operated Crystal Lake, a popular summer recreation site. Physician Harry Johnson Price and his wife, Carla, purchased the house from the Davises, and their family resided here from 1961 until 1999. (TR, CD, HOC)

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