157 Alta Avenue

Frederick A. Taylor House; two-story, two bay, brick, Colonial Revival style residence; square plan; side entrance portico featuring round-arched pediment with entablature supported on Tuscan columns; french doors with shutters; six-over-six double hung sash windows with shutters; modified Palladian window; hipped slate roof with cross gables; brick chimney; rear gabled ell features glazed porch with square columns; alterations include one story, flat roof garage addition. Vacant side lots; lots 127 and 129.

2 1/2-story brick house with narrow front and long side and rear elevations; two-bay front facade with multi-pane French windows and, on second-story, rectangular multi-pane windows, all with splayed brick lintels, stone keystones, and wood shutters; to right of facade is recessed entrance portico with Tuscan piers and segmental pediment; round-arch door with fanlight; south elevation with rectangular windows; multi-pane sash; stone keystones; glazed sun porch; north side with gable articulated by large round-arch with triplet window, Doric pilasters, small fanlight, and large blind fan; extension to north; hip roof with slate shingles; brick chimney.

Alterations: One-story garage addition on north elevation.

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies this as the home of Rudolf Eickmeyer, portrait photographer.

This is a 2 1/2 story, 2 bay vernacular house with a slate hipped roof and large cross gable. The rear portion is intersected with a hipped roof addition. The main entrance is enclosed in a column supported, arched roof portico with simplified entablature. There is a large enclosed side porch, French doors on both bays of front first story, and a large Palladian window on side of structure.

Feature: Garage