415 Rivermont Ave

Categories
  • Lower Rivermont
Address
415 Rivermont Ave.
Property Name
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Date Built
1909
Architect
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Contractor
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Function
Multi-Family
Style & Architectural Description
Transition Queen Anne/Colonial Revival. 2-story, 3-bay hip-roofed frame house with a 1-story, 3-bay front porch. Porch has concrete steps, Tuscan columns and turned balusters. There is a cross gable at the northeast corner with pattered shingles and a round-arched window. Other windows are 9/2. Center door has transom.
Owners
  • 1909-1934 Unknown
  • 1934-1938 Martha A. Powell
  • 1938-1939 Home Owners Loan Corp.
  • 1939-1969 Arthur E. & Frances Stump
  • 1969-1975 Arthur e. Stump, Jr.
  • 1975-1978 John W. Jackson III
  • 1978-2003 William H. Crank
  • 2003-Present Central City Homes LP
Anecdotal Information
This house is typical of other houses built during this period along lower Rivermont Avenue. Formerly a single dwelling, it was converted to a duplex around 1975. According to the Lynchburg City Directory, from 1940-1942 this was Frances Southall's Beauty Shoppe and from 1948-1952 Frances Stump Beauty Shop.

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Randolph College
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