125 Alta Avenue

Jules Breuchard (aka Denis O'Brien) House; two-and-one half story, brick, five bay, Georgian Revival style residence; square plan; Flemish bond brickwork; primary and secondary entrances featuring columned porticos supported on scamozzi and Tuscan columns and sidelighted doors; six-over-six double hung sash windows with stone sills and keystoned lintels; contrasting string course and quoining; tripartite window; hipped roof with modillioned cornice, gable and swan's neck pedimented dormers and towering end chimneys; one story open porch supported on columns; two story, gable roofed side wing; ornamental iron fence with brick posts supporting ball finials.

Significance: Park Hill West (c. 2006), pp. 48-58, identifies this as the 1899 Breuchard House, a Georgian Revival dwelling cited as one of Park Hill's interpretations of the great Georgian houses of the pre-Revolutionary era.

2 1/2-story house designed in a formal Georgian manner, faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond with random burned bricks; beige brick quoins; beige brick belt course separates first and second story; limestone splayed lintels with raised keystones; limestone belt course at sill level of second story; symmetrical, five-bay wide facade facing Alta Avenue focusing on projecting, one-story, wood entrance portico with paired Ionic columns, Ionic pilasters, and rooftop railing; paneled door with leaded transom and sidelights; window above entrance with keyed stone surround and stone lintel supported by elongated brackets; 6x6 windows, symmetrical, five-bay wide facade facing Undercliff Street with projecting Doric portico and shallow pediment; side entrance beneath portico with wide leaded sidelights; triplet window above side portico with 6x6 central window flanked by narrower 4x4 windows; widely spaced windows similar to those on front elevation; hip roof with three dormer windows on front and side elevations; central dormer with swan's-neck pediment, flanked by pedimented dormers; pedimented dormers on west elevation; bracketed cornice; beige brick chimneys; wing to north with second-story terrace and wood railing; open Doric porch to west; one-story wing to west; site bordered by stone and brick wall and high iron fence with stone posts capped by balls. Side lot to north (No. 1 17)

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies this as the home of Denis F. O'Brien, counsel for Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charles Chaplin.

This is a 2 1/2 story, 5 bay Georgian Revival house with a hipped roof and multiple pedimented dormers. The center bay dormers have swans' neck pediments; double hung windows have stone sills and lintels with keystones. Contrasting colored bricks are used to create string courses. There are two porticos; one with Doric columns, pediment and modillioned cornice; other with a flat roof and Ionic columns and entablature. Doorways have sidelights and transom with tracery. There are four chimneys, and multiple one story side additions.

Feature: Wall surrounding lot

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies this as the former J. Breuchard residence, an 1899 Georgian Revival structure with Flemish bond brickwork, Ionic and Doric columned porches and porticos, keystoned lintels, contrasting quoining, and a symmetrical five-bay facade.

The illustrated view shows a large three-story mansion-style residence with a symmetrical facade, tall chimneys, and a wraparound porch, set behind a low wall along a sloping street.