Architecture:
Style: Colonial
Revival Style
Description: This is a two-story wood frame house with wood
clapboard siding on the first story, wood shingle siding on the second story,
and a contoured concrete block foundation.
The roofline is a side gabled gambrel.
The roof front exhibits a small gable dormer on the left, and a large
gable dormer on the right with flared sides and three adjacent windows. The partial width front porch has a flat roof
with brackets and modern wrought iron supports.
Decorative elements include small brackets between the first and second
stories, a one story semi-hexagonal bay left of the porch which contains a
leaded glass transom, and a one story semi-hexagonal bay at the west side
entry.
Significant
Period:
Construction Date: 1907
Architect/Builder: Unknown
Context: The
first residents were the Frank and Christina Van Valkenburg
family. Frank was a line operator and
foreman for the Riverside Printing Company.
The Van Valkenburgs lived there from 1907
through 1915. Anna Schoor,
widow of Jacob, lived in the home from about 1918 to 1939. Her son Peter H Schoor,
a clerk, lived with her in the 1920s.
Bessie Donnelly, employed by Spencer Corsetiere, lived there as of 1940.