You are here

Reece House

-A A +A
1883. 415 S. Summit Ave.

As with several other houses in the city, the designer of this dwelling settled on the older Italianate style, but he slightly modernized it to bring it up into the 1880s. The center projecting pavilion has a wide, low-pitched roof, a form that seems almost to be Colonial Revival rather than Italianate. Thin horizontal windows have been injected within the entablature, and instead of brackets, the roof soffit is articulated by thick projecting rafter tails. Though there are paired wood piers on the porch running across the front of the house, the porch seems more in the Queen Anne style than the Italianate.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,