The Jefferson Avenue Historic District [†] embodies Westwood's suburban residential development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which featured single-family dwellings moderately set back from the street with outbuildings, consisting of carriage houses (later garages) and sheds, located to the rear of the lots. The cohesiveness of this row is derived from its similarity in bulk (2-1/2 story frame houses), its irregularity of massing (multiple gable-front dormers and bays), its wraparound porches, and surviving elements (select columns, door/window entablatures, wooden doors, ribbon windows). Numbers 73 and 77 were designed in the Queen (Anne ?) Revival style circa 1890, and featured irregular roofs with multiple gable fronts and bays, while nos. 57, 59, and 63 were designed in the Colonial Revival style circa 1905, and feature American Foursquare plans augmented by multiple dormers and bays.
† Adapted from: Westwood Historic Commission, Westwood Avenue Historic District Designation Report 2012, www.westwoodnj.gov, accessed July, 2025.
Street Names
Jefferson Avenue