64 Alta Avenue

Francis A. Winslow House; two-and-one half story, multiple bay, Shingle Style residence with Craftsman style influences; L-shaped plan; coursed stone exposed basement and first story walls, shingled second story; single and paired double hung windows; multiple cross-gambreled roof with exposed rafter ends; eyebrow dormer; coursed stone chimney; one story terrace; alterations include insertion of three car ground-story garage, wrought iron railings, rear shingled deck.

2 1/2-story L-shaped house; complex massing; rubblestone first story and raised basement; shingle upper floors; entrance porch recessed beneath second story; fluted piers rest on battered stone bases; triple window grouping on second story; terrace with stone siding; peak and gambrel roof slopes with shed projections and eyebrow dormers; stone chimney; bracketed cornices. Side lots to north (No. 58) and south (No. 70).

Alterations: One-story rubblestone wing at basement level projects to north with terrace set above garage.

This is a 2 1/2 story Shingle Style house with a steeply pitched gable roof containing an eyelid window and multiple cross gables. There is an enclosed front porch with Neo-Grec carvings on the supporting columns. A side terrace addition houses three car garage.

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies this as the Francis A. Winslow residence (1894), one of the original fourteen houses, and cites it with the Sherman house at 139 Alta Avenue as an intact example of Shingle Style influence in turn-of-the-century suburban dwellings.

The illustrated view shows a substantial two-and-a-half-story house on a grassy slope, with a gabled roof, an awning over a porch or veranda, and dense surrounding trees and shrubs.