88 Alta Avenue

George L. Rose House; two-and-one half story, multiple bay, Shingle Style residence with Queen Anne characteristics; rectangular plan; set on high basement; one-story wrap-around porch featuring coursed stone piers supporting exotic columns; paneled entrance doors with glazed transom and sidelights; four vertical lights-over-one double hung sash windows; bay windows; cross-gabled roof with recessed dormer with curved cheeks; cross gabled roofs; conical roofed tower with columned, glazed observatory; brick chimneys.

Significance: Park Hill West (c. 2006), pp. 48-58, identifies this as the George L. Rose House, designed by Adolf F. Leicht, and cites it as a Shingle Style house retaining Queen Anne asymmetrical massing.

2 1/2-story house with high basement; shingle and clapboard siding; long dog-leg stair leads to wrap around porch with stone posts supporting paired bulbous columns; high shingled basement with ribbon windows (possibly an alteration); paneled double door with sidelights and transom; large windows with single-pane lower sash and upper sash with four vertical panes; small leaded transoms; hip roof with large gables; round tower with conical roof; brick chimneys; north side, on Rose Lane, with three-sided, angled, full-height bay with rubblestone base and alternating shingle and clapboard siding; side entrance with bulbous column supporting sun porch; brick chimney.

Alterations: Open porch in tower glazed; windows in high basement.

This is a 2 1/2 story Shingle Style house with a hipped roof and multiple cross gables. There is a front, 3 story, conical-roofed tower and a continuous one-story front porch surrounding base of tower as well as entire front of structure.

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies the Brown residence at 88 Alta Avenue as one of the original fourteen houses built in the initial Park Hill subdivision.

The illustrated view shows a large three-story Victorian residence with a prominent round corner tower, wraparound porch, and landscaped front yard.