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Maple Street

725 Fourth Avenue West

House. Non-contributing, 1955.
One-story Ranch style house with a hip roof, vinyl siding, central chimney, one-over-one windows, and wood panel front door.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, owner)

720 Fourth Avenue West

William C. Forsythe House

House. Contributing, ca. 1925.
One and one-half-story bungalow with a front gable roof and side gable roof wings. German siding. Engaged front porch with square posts and no balustrade. Interior brick chimney. Four-vertical-over-one windows, single light-over-panel front door. William C. Forsythe, an agent with Sinclair Refrigerator Company, and wife Ruth lived here from 1937 to 1938. Ruth Forsythe continued to live in the house until at least 1951.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)

Garage. Non-contributing, 1980s.
Two-bay modern garage with a front gable roof.

711 Fourth Avenue West

Margaret L. McGinnis House

Non-contributing, ca. 1952.
One-and-one-half-story Minimal Traditional house with an exterior end chimney of older brick. Side gable roof with front gable dormers. Attached side porch on east. Six-over-six and nine-over-nine windows. Mrs. Virginia Beaver, who lived next door at 707 Fourth Avenue West (#175), notes that the house was built with "Williamsburg" plans. House was subdivided from the Mauney-Blythe House property (#176). Mrs. Margaret L. McGinnis lived here beginning in 1952.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)

707 Fourth Avenue West

Dennis Blythe House

Non-contributing, 1964.
One and one-half story modern side gable cottage with front gable dormers. Walls are painted brick veneer and vinyl siding. Exterior end chimney. Twelve-over-twelve windows and modern door. Mrs. Virginia Beaver, who lived in this house for approximately thirty years, notes that this was built for Dennis Blythe on a portion of the property subdivided from the Mauney-Blythe House (#176).
(Sanborn maps, city directories, former owner)

705 Fourth Avenue West
705 Fourth Avenue West

Mauney-Blythe House

House. Contributing, ca. 1902.
Two and one-half story Neo-Classical Revival style house with two-tiered porch, typical of a summer home built by Charlestonians. High hip roof with projecting side gable bays. Wraparound porch, with the southeast corner enclosed. Porch details include round columns in pairs, turned balusters. Two interior brick chimneys. Wide one-over-one windows, and single light-over-panel door. Stone pier foundation. House currently under renovation, with vinyl siding being applied. This house was supposedly built as a summer home for a Charleston doctor on a portion of land that originally belonged to the Curtis family (#172). He brought servants with him every year from Charleston. Originally, there was a carriage house and a caretaker's cottage on the property. Land from this house was sold to build 707 and 711 Fourth Avenue West (#174 and 175), and the Christian Science Society Building on Fifth Avenue West (#144). The house was vacant in the late 1930s to early 1940s. Mrs. M. Daisy Angell lived here from 1943 to 1944. Reverend D. Mauney lived here in 1945 to 1946. Mrs. Bessie F. Mauney and Miss Elizabeth Mauney, a piano teacher, lived here beginning in 1948. According to the current owner, girls from the Fassifern School would come to the house for piano recitals and teas.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, owner)

Storage shed. Contributing, 1930s.
Small one-story frame building with front gable roof. Herbs were grown here.