House. Contributing, ca. 1908.
Two-and-one-half-story Four Square house, similar in appearance to 846 Dale Street (#36). Clipped gable roof with wide eaves and shed roof dormer at front. Brick on the first floor, weatherboard on the second. Attached shed-roofed front porch with paired tapered columns on stuccoed brick piers. Windows are one-over-one, some with flat arches and keystones. Some diamond pane windows in attic. Front door is single-light-over-panel with a transom. Stone foundation, level lot.
This house appears on the original plat for the neighborhood, Columbia Park, dated June 1908, but deed records indicate it may have been built later, ca. 1919 by Emma B. Wingo of Greenville, SC, who purchased the lot from the Hendersonville Development Company. The deed is unclear as to the existence of a house in 1919. Emma Wingo, widow of Jonathan O. Wingo, rented furnished rooms here in the 1920s. Dena E. Francisco was also living in the house in 1926. He was the proprietor of Hendersonville Coal & Wood Company, located at the railroad. Emma Wingo sold the house to Mary L. Fancisco, widow of Dena E. Francisco, in 1934. She continued to live there until at least 1953.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, Henderson County Deed Books 103, p. 145 and 210, p. 165)
House. Contributing, ca. 1908.
Two-story-plus-attic Queen Anne house with hip roof and projecting front gable dormers. Wide eaves, pressed shingle roof covering, asbestos siding, wraparound porch with square posts and no balustrade. Corner entry. Interior brick chimney, cut stone foundation, one-over-one windows, multi-light replacement door with transom.
This house appears on the original plat for the neighborhood, Columbia Park, dated June 1908. Mrs. M. E. Hinds purchased the lot from the Hendersonville Development Company in 1917, but it is not clear if a house was pre-existing on the lot. Albert L. Beck, with Beck Hardware Company, lived in this house from 1926 to 1951, with Mrs. Ethel L. Beck, his widow, continuing to live there through at least 1953. Beginning in the 1930s, the house was known as the Beck House or Beck Villa, a boarding house for summer tourists to Hendersonville. A Chamber of Commerce brochure from 1931 noted that a single room and meals per week cost $12.50 to $15.00. This same ad noted the home was ". . . cool, pleasant and restful . . . two blocks from very popular mineral spring . . . large, well ventilated rooms, spacious shaded lawns and porches, private family tables, fresh vegetables from our own garden. . . "
(Sanborn maps, city directories, Henderson County Deed Book 93, p. 415 )
House. Contributing, ca. 1908.
Two-story-plus-attic Queen Anne house with an "L" plan. Hip roof with clipped gable dormer at front and side gables on sides. Portion of original wraparound porch enclosed after 1954, at the northeast corner. First floor brick, second floor shingles. Central brick chimney with corbelling, cut stone foundation, one-over-one windows; front door is single light-over-five panels.
This house appears on the original plat for the neighborhood, Columbia Park, dated June 1908. Miss Nellie Orr bought the property from the Hendersonville Development Company in 1917, with no indication on the deed if a house was pre-existing. Beginning in the late 1930s this house was called the Beck Villa Annex, needed for more rooms when the Beck Villa next door was full. It remained as the Beck Villa Annex until 1951. Beginning in 1952 Albert L. Beck, Jr. with Beck Brothers Pharmacy and wife Aileen; Carl R. Brown, with OK Stores and wife Ruth; and Gordon R. Jones, an agent with Home Security Life Insurance Company, and wife Olive lived in the house.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, Henderson County Deed Book 93, p. 445)
Frank Klipple House
House. Contributing, ca. 1925.
Two-story front gable house which probably originally was an outbuilding to 824 Dale Street (#39). Projecting screened porch bay on second floor cantilevers out over first floor at northeast corner. Brick foundation, four-vertical-over-one windows, four-light-over panel front door.
Frank Klipple of Florida bought the lot from the Hendersonville Development Company in 1924. From 1937 to 1938 Quincy Sherill, a mill worker, and wife Eloise, and Evan Sparks, a carpenter, and wife Maude lived here. From 1939 to 1940 James L. Pressley with Wing Paper Box Company and wife Alice, and Lloyd G. Ward, a mechanic at Super Service Garage, and wife Madelene lived in the house. Harry E. Drake with Pure Oil Service Station and wife Adele lived here from 1941 to 1942 along with Thad B. Page, a painter at Hunter Chevrolet, and wife Annie. Jesse H. Laughter, employed with the State Highway Department, and wife Madge lived herefrom 1943 to 1944. James C. Phillips, a tinner, and wife Pauline, and Allard J. Ravan, an agent with Imperial Life Insurance Company, and wife Inez lived in the house from 1945 to 1946. Gerald Wright Phillips lived here from 1948 to 1949, and Clarence S. Thompson, a driver with Kalmia Dairy, and wife Lois lived here from 1950 to at least 1952. Beginning in 1952 Mrs. Mary Gilgram lived in the house with the Thompsons.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, Henderson County Deed Book 121, p. 335)
House. Non-contributing, ca. 1954.
One-story Minimal Traditional brick house with hip roof, interior brick chimney, brick foundation and eight-over-one and picture windows. Original front door has a fanlight over panels. Attached hip roof porch with round posts and no balustrade and a garage wing on the east side. This house does not appear in city directories until after 1953.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)