Accomac Street Between Ohio and South Jefferson Avenues

Heading east of Ohio Avenues on Accomac Street towards South Jefferson, we continue to see two family houses.

The architectural styles are hard to quantify; take for example, above, where there is a little point sticking up above the pediment.

Overall, the houses look more or less the same, and it can be seen that these houses were all built in large tracts, all around the same time.

If there is one common theme, it is that there were obviously once much more elaborate pediments on the front facade that have deteriorated and simplified due to poor maintenance in the past.

Wood cornices are gone, and replaced with either brick and terracotta or pressed tin.

White, or Baker’s Brick, is also used to create simple ornamental designs.

With that, we arrive at the street barricade that keeps cars from entering the neighborhood from South Jefferson.

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