Buell Ave Tour

406 Buell

The Carrie Bennett home is a 2 ½ story frame Neo-Classical style structure built in 1906 on a limestone foundation. The main facade is dominated by a two-story semi-circular portico supported by Ionic columns. Sets of triple 10 light windows flank porch on the first and second story. The house has a central door with sidelights and fan transom. The second floor has a central door with sidelights leading to a small balcony. The house is topped with a large end gable roof. The attic has a Palladian window.

408 Buell

The J.W. King home is a Classical Revival home constructed in 1898. It sits on a limestone foundation. The main level is dominated by an enclosed porch. Two evenly placed one-over-one double hung sash windows dominate the second level. The house is topped by a hip roof with a central front gable and dormer.

411 Buell

The F.W. Plant home is a 2 ½ story frame Queen Anne style house constructed in 1882. It also has a limestone foundation. The house has a porch, which is supported by brick piers and extends along the front facade. The exterior of the structure is cut wood shingles.

413 Buell

This home is a 2 story frame Queen Anne style. The front facade is asymmetrically massed with an octagonal tower. The facade is dominated by a large porch which wraps around the tower. The house is articulated by one-over-one double hung windows except for the tower which is dominated by oval leaded glass windows. The house is topped by a low hip roof.  This is the last residence of Molly Zelko.

414 Buell

The N.J. Nusbaum home is a 2 ½ story frame Queen Anne built in 1896. The main level is dominated by a large porch with extends across the front and wraps around the side, supported by paired round columns. The second level of the home has a protruding trapezoidal bay on the side. It has a small fixed central window with one-over-one double hung sash windows. The house is topped with a steeply pitched cross gable roof.

416 & 418 Buell

The Martin Ivec/Harry Smith home is 2 ½ story asymmetrically massed classical Queen Anne style home constructed in 1906. The house is dominated by a porch which extends across the front and is carried on three classical columns. The facade is further defined by two single entry doors and one fixed window with a transom.

The second floor of the house has an enclosed porch which overhangs the main porch and a small windowless hexagonal tower. The house has a gabled hip roof with a Palladian window.

419 Buell

The N.J. Horn home is a two story frame Dutch Colonial house constructed in 1900. A large porch extends across the front of the main level and surrounds a fixed window with flanking one-over-one double hung sash windows and two single door entries.

The second level of the home has a Gamble four square end gable configuration. With two evenly placed one-over-one double hung sash windows on the main facade. A small trapezoidal bay rises on the side. The first floor is clapboard and the second floor gables are filled with split shingles.

420 & 422 Buell

The P.E. June/Thomas Ireland home is a 2 ½ story brick duplex in the Colonial Revival style. It was constructed in 1924. The main facade is dominated by two rectangular porches supported on two columns, surrounding two single door entries. The doors are flanked by large fixed pane windows. A small window is located between the doors.

The second level has a pair of centrally located small fixed pane windows, flanked on either side by two evenly placed one-over-one double hung sash windows. The house is topped by an end gable roof with returns on the lower eave. Two chimneys, one on each end, cut through the center of the gable.

424 Buell

The Rudolph W. Menk home is a two story brick Colonial Revival constructed in 1921. The main façade has a small rectangular porch supported by two columns, surrounding a single door entry with sidelights. The entry is flanked by two sets of three one-over-one double hung sash windows.

The second floor has a small central one-over-one sash window flanked by two sets of two one-over-one double hung sash windows. The house is topped by an end gable roof.

428 Buell

The John Theiler home is a 2 ½ story brick Classical style home built in 1906. The house is dominated by a large classical porch supported by Ionic columns. The house has stone quoins and a trapezoidal bay at the end. The house is topped by a Classical cornice and hip roof with a central Jacobean style dormer.

Buell and Plainfield road

Memorial to Molly Zelko

Molly Zelko was the editor of the Spectator, a local newspaper. She crusaded against organized crime and political corruption. After putting the paper to bed on September 25, 1957, she parked her car in front of her home on Buell and disappeared. Only her shoes remained. She had often told friends that if she were to find herself in trouble she would kick off her shoes and run.

501 Buell

The Herman Stoll home is a 2 ½ story frame house in the neoclassical style constructed in 1889. A two story, four columned porch dominates the structure. It has a hipped roof with ‘eyebrow’ windows.

505 Buell

The W. E. Davidson home is a 2 ½ story frame Queen Anne style constructed in 1889 with a limestone foundation. The house is asymmetrically massed with a second story tower dominating the southeast corner.

507 Buell

The George Young home is a 2 ½ story Queen Anne style home constructed in 1889. The main façade is dominated by a large porch which extends across the front and wraps around to the east side. The porch is carried on paired columns. The upper level is accentuated by paired one-over-one double hung sash windows. The house is topped with an end gable roof.

509 Buell

The J.W. Downey home is a 2 ½ story frame Queen Anne home built in 1889. The house has a spindle work porch with a trapezoidal tower located on the southeast corner. The house is articulated with fish scale siding on the tower, topped by a steep mansard roof. The main body of the house is topped by a gable roof.

511-513 Buell

The R. J. Gluecklich/ F.B. McPartlin home is a 2 ½ story frame Prairie/Queen Anne style home constructed in 1897 on a limestone foundation. A large porch dominates the front of the house. A two story protruding bay dominates the east end. The main façade is further dominated by three one-over-one double hung sash windows on each level. The main level has two single door entries.

The second story of the home has a protruding curved bay with large one-over-one double hung sash windows. This bay retains its shingle cladding. The house is topped by a hip roof with hipped dormer and a pair of one-over-one double hund sash windows.