2013 Hollyrood Street, Charles E. Meyers House, 1911

A small side-gabled one-room deep frame house with rear gable ell and hipped-roof front porch supported by turned posts with spandrels and picket balustrade. It features a central door, two-over-two windows, two central interior corbelled brick chimneys, and shingled gables. Myers (wife Flora) was a drayman (driver) who moved here from Salem in 1912.

Gable-Ell style – The gable-ell was a generic house form found in abundance between the 1890s and the late 1910s, at which point it was replaced in popularity by the bungalow. The form was so simple that any carpenter could build one without having to obtain architectural plans. A gable-ell has two intersecting roof gables, which gives it an “L” shape.