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Inside a recent restoration
Local design blog This Young House Young House Love takes a peek inside the 2005/2006 renovation at 608 North 24th Street:
When Diana began house hunting a year ago, she knew she wanted a fixer-upper. […] She wanted to put her family’s renovation and restoration skills to the test (her dad is a master woodworker, for instance) to create a fresh, personality-filled home that she could save from demolition in the process (it was already condemned when they snagged it for only 45K). And check out some of the amazing exterior details that they introduced along the way – from a new, stacked balcony and fence (with hand-carved accents courtesy of her father) to the classic trimwork and columns (some of which her pops created by hand to match the existing exterior woodwork).
608 North 24th Street (circa 2004)
608 North 24th Street (July 2006)
They call that house a foursquare? Certainly that is an Italianate.
What a great story and rehab. But, this house is pretty clearly an italianate. It has absolutely none of the characterstics of a foursquare.
This is a foursquare:
http://www.landmarksociety.org/discover/rehab/images/1-10.jpg
Just to add another 2-cents…Foursquare is a house form, not a style, whereas Italianate is a style. You could, in fact, have a Foursquare Italianate, but this house appears to be a single-pile house form (one room on each side of a center hall), rendered in the Italianate style. Often a two-story, single pile house is called an “I-house”, but not always.
Too much info, I know. The house really does look great!