82 Hillcrest Avenue

2 1/2-story clapboard house closely resembling mid-18th-century, New England Georgian style mansion; front facade faces Crest Place; symmetrical facade; projecting central pavilion capped by pediment with semicircular window; monumental fluted Doric pilasters at ends of central pavilion and at corners; central entrance with leaded sidelights and transom set beneath portico supported by slender Ionic columns; railing atop portico; Palladian window on second story above portico; rectangular first-story windows with projecting lintels; multi-pane sash; hip roof with pedimented dormers; porch on west facade facing Hillcrest Avenue supported by paired slender Ionic columns; porch railing and roof railing; French doors on second story; three-sided, angled oriel on east elevation; one-story and basement, rectilinear bay on south side; brick chimney.

Alterations: One-story garage added to south

This is a 2 1/2 story, 3 bay Georgian Revival house with hipped roof, projecting front center bay with pediment, modillioned cornice, portico with column supports, entrance door with sidelights and transom, Palladian, bay and lunette windows, dormers on all sides, single story porch with balustrade, and double hung windows with entablature.

Alterations: Rear garage addition

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, cites 82 Hillcrest Avenue and 83 Hillcrest Avenue as fine smaller-scale Georgian Revival examples in Park Hill, built in 1911 with simple three-bay clapboarded facades, classical detailing, harmonious proportions, and fine craftsmanship.

The 1912 *Park Hill Homes* booklet illustrates this as a full-page 1911 home at 82 Hillcrest Avenue.