1725 Porter St.
Colonial Revival
This house is distinguished by simple square-brick piers with wooden swag capitals that support the porch roof. A segmented conical roof crowns the bay window on the second floor. The roof parapet is stepped in a “Flemish gable” and flanked by projecting piers formed by angled bricks. The Porter Street twins are more modest in scale than the later homes to the south and were originally less technologically advanced. They were heated by coal furnaces and lighted by gas while the later houses were supplied with steam heat and electricity from a central plant.