437 East Sprague Street, Charles Lester and Katherine Creech House, c.1917

Charles Creech was married to Katherine Spach, the granddaughter of wagon works founder John C. Spach. In 1920, Creech and W. M. Spach converted the Spach wagon works into furniture manufacturer Unique Furniture Makers to save the declining business (Roxie Sides). Their daughter, Mary Katherine Creech, served as an administrator for the Girl Scouts of America in various cities (including WS). After retiring, she became Historic Bethabara Park’s first director in 1966, and then was appointed the archivist of the Moravian Church, Southern Province in 1970.

A two-story side-gable Colonial Revival with pedimented dormers and aluminum siding. Sidelights and a fanlight embellish the entrance; a metal roof balustrade sits atop a flat-roofed wraparound porch that is supported by grouped fluted columns, but what was originally a slate roof has been converted to shingles. The porte-cochere is also supported by fluted columns. 1925 CD: (437?) Charles and Katherine Creech (W), secretary-treasurer and general manager of J. C. Wagon Works; 1935 CD: (437?) ditto; 1945 CD: (437?) ditto, owner-occupant; 1954 CD: (437) Mary Creech (W), owner-occupant.

Colonial Revival style – architecture that reuses aspects of earlier colonial prototypes; found from about 1870 through today.