27 Edgecliff Terrace

Park Hill (2002)

Block: 226
Lot: 23
Date: c. 1905 (before 1907)
Contributing: Left blank
Architect: Left blank
Style: Colonial Revival
Garage: Left blank
Shed: Left blank

2 1/2-story house; rubblestone base; porch with chamfered wood posts with brackets resting on rubblestone bases; rectangular entrance and windows; hip roof with hip-roof dormers; boxy oriel on north facade with large round-arch window; one-story rubblestone garage set in south side of porch; round, one-story bay on south elevation.

Alterations: Aluminum siding.

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies this as the home of Irvin S. Cobb, a nationally known humorist and writer.

Park Hill (1984)

approx. pp. 334-335

Site: 119-40-0521
Date: 1905
Style: Colonial Revival
Condition: deteriorated
Material: clapboard
Structure: wood frame with light members
Surroundings: residential

This is a 2 1/2 story, asymmetrical Colonial Revival house with a hipped roof and multiple dormers. It features wood quoining, large brackets supporting eaves, front porch supported by stone piers, oval window, rounded bay with conical roof, and an arched window with tracery set within a two-story projection.

Noteworthy: Quoining

Alterations: Single bay early addition

Surveyor: Alina Rodescu · Builder: American Real Estate Company