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THE SWISS AVENUE
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5611   5533

YEAR BUILT: 1920
ARCHITECT/BUILDER: Unknown
ORIGINAL OWNER: P.V. Farrell
ORIGINAL
DESCRIPTION:
Two story 4-Square/Prairie. Brown brick. Red tile roof. hip roof; deep overhang; paired brackets. Entry portico w/gable roof; brackets; brick piers; geometric designs on piers; stone quoins surround door. Unusual shaped window above portico follows line of gable peak. Intircate geometric leaded glass windows in sun room at left. Full width open raised terrace curved to left to meet recessed two story wing; corbeled brick wall. Recessed one story porte cochere at right; iron rail on roof.
OF INTEREST: This Prairie style home sold in 1922 for $40,000. In the 1950s, when the area was declining, the house sold for only $9,500.