52 Alta Avenue

Mary J. Tompkins House; two-and-one half story, Shingle Style residence; rectangular plan; wrap-around, balustraded porch with Ionic columns; coursed stone ground story, frame second story; entrance with sidelight and transom; corner tower with conical roof; one-over-one double hung sash windows; cross-gabled roof; alterations include extensive aluminum siding.

2 1/2-story house set on a high basement; rock-faced stone first story and basement; angled, wrap-around porch with stone piers and Doric colonettes; entrance with sidelights and transom; angled corner tower with polygonal roof; peak roof with dormers; third-story loggia.

Alterations: Aluminum siding on upper floors.

This is a 2 1/2 story Shingle Style house with a gable roof, multiple cross gables, porches and window types. Cut stone is used throughout first story. There is a rounded continuous one story front porch.

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies this as the Mary J. Tomkins residence (1894), one of the original fourteen houses built in the initial Park Hill subdivision.