Apartment Building
Contributing, ca. 1945.
Two-story Colonial Revival apartment building with vinyl siding and front balconies, possibly added. Three-vertical-over-one and casement windows. Lot level with street, parking to rear. This and the adjacent building to the east (#169) were built as four-unit apartments.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, owner)
Presley B. Burckmeyer House
Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-story side gable cottage with weatherboard siding, and small addition at the northeast corner. Attached front porch with front gable roof, round columns, 1x1 balustrade. Two interior brick chimneys, two-over-two windows. Presley B. Burckmeyer, manager at Burckmeyer Grocery, built this house and lived here until 1949. Mrs. Mary Burckmeyer lived here from 1950.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)
Apartment Building
Apartment building. Contributing, ca. 1945.
Twin building to #168 to west.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)
Garage and storage building. Contributing, ca. 1945.
One-story frame garage and storage building with a shed roof.
John G. Grant House
House. Contributing, ca. 1894.
Two and one-half story Colonial Revival house with a hip roof, standing seam covering, and central front gable bay at second story with boxed returns. Entry portico at first floor; wraparound porch on two sides. Granite center steps, attached gazebos on porch at northeast and northwest corners. Pebbledash walls. Two large interior brick chimneys with corbeling. One-over-one windows; leaded glass panes at attic level; single-light door with sidelights. Large lot, house set above street. Land added to east after 1923. John G. Grant sold this house to Emma Grimes in 1905, and Emma G. Grimes sold it to James M. Seignious in 1908. The Seignious estate sold it to Eva S. Murray and Elizabeth S. Bryant in 1923. Murray and Bryant sold it to T. B. Allen, a state Senator, in 1924. The Allens sold the house to Thomas J. Heller in 1928; Heller sold to the Adgers in 1936. John Adger owned the house from 1936 to 1942. Mrs. Jean Adger lived there from 1943 to 1944. In 1943, the Adger estate sold the house to Ernest Godwin. Godwin then sold to Dr. Richard S. Major. Dr. Major, a physician and surgeon, lived here from 1945 to at least 1980.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, survey files, plat of Seignious estate)
Servant's Cottage. Contributing, ca. 1894.
One-story hip roof cottage with interior brick chimney, front porch with square posts, two-over-two windows, brick foundation, weatherboard siding.
Garage. Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-story front gable roof garage with flat roof storage wing added to west.
Fred R. Byers House
Contributing, ca. 1920.
One-and-one-half-story bungalow with a hip roof and hip roof dormer. Weatherboard siding. Attached front porch with paired posts on brick piers. Central chimney. One-over-one windows; modern door. Currently under renovation. Fred R. and Mildred Byers, of Byers Brothers, lived here from 1937 to at least 1951.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)