38 Cornell Avenue

Also listed as 40 Cornell Avenue

Park Hill (2002)

approx. p. 137

2 1/2-story and high basement house originally a pair with 44 Cornell Avenue; L-shaped porch with square piers; entrance door with multiple small panels and small lights; window to left with small square panes; bowed window at attic level with complex sash set beneath pediment supported by brackets; peak and hip roof slopes with peak-roof dormers; south elevation with three-sided, angled bay on first story, supporting boxy bay on second story from which projects a two-sided angled oriel supporting projecting gable; north elevation with two-sided, angled oriel on first story supporting boxy oriel on second story; pair of attic window with small-pane upper sash.

Alterations: Re-sided; basement stuccoed

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 137-138, identifies this house and 44 Cornell Avenue as an original pair, with related high-basement massing, bowed attic windows, dormers, and projecting bay/oriel compositions.

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