A somber brick pile, the Lucy Tarr House combines Queen Anne massing with Stick Style decoration but manages to appear strangely modern in its general understatement and overall lack of frills. A corbeled chimney rising from the center of the gabled facade and a
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Lucy Tarr House
c. 1885, Ellen Hunter Tarr. 1456 Pleasant Ave. (northeast corner of Pleasant Ave. and Sycamore St.)
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