About

The Griswold house is a 6-unit rental dwelling that is one story in height and appears as a large square building with several additions to the east and north. There’s no identifiable style. It has a finished basement. There’s a front door on the west facing façade without a roof and accessed by a porch stoop, another west-facing door on the north side of the large square with a roof and metal railing, and another north-facing door inset into the north elevation further to the east. The building is stuccoed. The large square building has a large chimney toward the east elevation and features wood double-hung windows with wood mullions dividing 3, 4, and 5 light panes over one light pane in appearance.

The structure sits on an 8,820-square-foot irregular polygon lot in the Lefkowsky Resubdivision of Block G, Addition No. 5 at the southeast corner of West Monument Street and Park Terrace. The footprint is 2,835 square feet. Mrs Griswold pulled a building permit for a 7-room, 1-bath frame stucco building at 23 Park Side Row; the address was later changed to 625 Park Terrace.

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Timeline

• 1922

  Benjamin Lefkowsky obtained a building permit for a property costing $4,750 for Mrs. Bella F. Griswold on March 7, 1922. It was for a 7-room, 1-bath frame stucco building at 23 Park Side Row; the address was later changed to 625 Park Terrace. Lefkowsky both designed and contracted 7 homes in the area.

• 1925

  Mrs. Bella F. Griswold pulled two building permits on March 7, 1925. One for the main residence and one for the garage.

  

  

Additional Resources

• 625 Park Terrace Research – a collection of documents compiled during the Historic Uptown Neighborhood’s historic preservation efforts.