1402 Waughtown Street, Ernest Nissen House, c.1905

A two-story side-gabled Queen Anne/Colonial Revival with a one-story hipped-roof addition on the east end. It still featured the original pressed tin shingle roof in 2004 (which has since been replaced) with hipped-roof dormers. The upper level porch is supported by slim Tuscan columns with a turned balustrade, and includes a center projecting bay with decorative shingles, diamond vent, and gable roof. There are also decorative shingles in the gable ends. The main entrance is flanked by polygonal bays and covered by a hipped-roof one-story main porch supported by groups of Tuscan columns on brick piers with a turned balustrade. Some windows appear to be original, some replacement, and the cladding is now aluminum siding. Local tradition holds that C. Frank Nissen built this house for his son W. Ernest Nissen. 1902 CD: (2500?) C. F. (Frank) Nissen, a wagon manufacturer; 1910 CD: (2502) Ned Shore (W); 1920 CD: (2502) W. Frank and Eva Sink (W), a bookkeeper at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; 1930 CD: same; 1940 CD: same, owner-occupant; 1950 CD: same.