305 Cascade Avenue, Gip I. Kimball House, 1920

A hipped-roof frame foursquare house with a full-facade hipped porch supported by square posts on shingled piers with a shingled balustrade, The facade features three asymmetrical bays on the first floor with two bays of paired windows on the second. Most windows are vertical three-over-one. First floor cladding is weatherboard, the second shingles, a popular design choice in this neighborhood. There’s also a one-story rear hipped ell and a center corbelled brick chimney.

Kimball and wife Lucille moved here from 410 S. Liberty Street. He had been a cashier with N&W Railway, but by 1921 was a bookkeeper with Forsyth Chair Co. (Tax mapping records show G. I. Kimel purchased this lot in January 1917 next door to Charles S. Kimel.)

Foursquare – A floor plan for a house consisting of four rooms that form a square or rectangle. An American Foursquare can be one-or two-story, usually with a steeply pitched hipped or pyramidal roof.

Shingle style (1880-1910) – an unusually free-form and variable style (usually asymmetrical), the common denominator is the shingle cladding. An overall lack of ornamentation and the uniform cladding emphasize the horizontal aspects of the structure.