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781 Pine Avenue
Corner of Pine Avenue and Granite Street
4 beds, 2 baths, 1,922 SF on a 5,400 SF lot
Built, 1900
Last sold, 1965
This Folk Victorian cottage combines elaborate woodwork with playful color and decoration to frame a front porch that serves as both an outdoor sitting area and a display of household personality. A tall gable covered in fish-scale shingles rises above the broad porch roof, with two adjoining upper windows set into its scalloped face. Below, turned posts support a nearly continuous band of closely spaced spindles. Matching balusters enclose the sitting areas on either side of the stairs, giving the porch an elaborate frame from its roof to its lower railings.
The cottage faces Pine Avenue across an unfenced front garden, where low shrubs and purple flowers border the lawn. A stone walk leads from the sidewalk to the central stairs, which rise to a porch with room for seating on both sides. A white picket fence encloses the side yard to the right of the house.
The color scheme and decorations give this conspicuous corner cottage a playful personality. The fish-scale gable, porch posts, spindles, railings, window sashes, and circular-glazed door are burgundy, set against deep green siding and white trim. Those contrasts bring out the scalloped shingles and individual pieces of turned woodwork. Two white chairs peek above the railings. Butterflies, painted flowers, signs, and animal figures add a fun, quirky layer around the sitting areas, where the household’s decorative choices are visible from the street.
Three Things I Love About the Home
1. The Playful porch
Butterflies, flowers, and fanciful figures express the household’s playful personality.
2. The Rounded-stone edging
A decorative border that neatly outlines the grass.
3. The Porch Spindlework
Fine craftsmanship at eye level.
