139 Alta Avenue

Charles R. Sherman House; two-and-one half story, two bay, Shingle Style residence with Craftsman and Queen Anne influences; rectangular plan; continuous porch supported on columns; sidelighted entrance with transom; bay window; one-over-one double hung sash and Palladian windows; cross-gabled roof with recessed dormer featuring curved cheeks; gambrel and gable roofs; full-height coursed stone engaged tower; stone chimney.

2 1/2-story house; stone base with shingle above; square-cut and novelty shingle siding; one-story porch supported by clustered columns set on stone bases and supporting a cornice with elongated brackets and a railing; entrance with stained-glass transom and clear-glass sidelights; rounded second-story bay supports projecting gable with exceptionally deep bracketed eaves; loggia in gable with door and ornate window sash; shingles at base of loggia bowed out; complex north elevation with one-story, round stone tower and full-height, polygonal wood tower with open loggia below polygonal roof; stained-glass windows in stone tower; simpler south elevation with projecting sun porch with diamond-pane upper sash and gambrel-roof gable; stone chimney.

Feature: Garage; one-story structure with rubblestone base, shingle gable, and peak roof

This is an excellent example of a 2 1/2 story Shingle Style house. It has a gable roof with multiple cross gables and projections. There are numerous porches located throughout structure, most notable are side attic story, conical-roofed porch and the front eyelid shaped porch. There is a stone tower containing leaded glass windows on side of structure. The front porch is constructed of stone with multiple column supports. Curved walls are used throughout.

Feature: Garage

Noteworthy: Numerous porches and towers

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies this as the Charles R. Sherman residence (1894), one of the original fourteen houses, and cites it with the Winslow house at 64 Alta Avenue as an intact example of Shingle Style influence in turn-of-the-century suburban dwellings.