Listed in its first insurance policy as an "Italian Villa," this home, fronting 550 feet on West Franklin Street, was remodeled between 1903 and 1910 by Mrs. Belle Hickock, taking on its current Georgian Revival form. three-bay-wide, two and one-half story brick house interior chimneys a hipped roof and central front gable four pedimented dormers with arch windows face east and west (two on each side) recessed wings were added to the rear of the house, enlarging the symmetrical central mass a one-story portico is supported by Scamozzi Ionic columns and capped with a balustrade behind the first-floor balustrade, which runs the full length of the facade, is a beautiful marble unsheltered promenade the front door is surmounted by a semi-elliptical fanlight and flanked with side lights the windows are 2/2 spanned by brick jack arches with keystones on the first-floor windows which are significantly larger than those of the second

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