912 Goldfloss Street, House, c. 1900

The description for this house was written while using Google Maps, which we use to double check house styles when not onsite. The house described below is still on Google Maps (2012), so it was a disappointment to discover in person… that this 1900 house, which had survived for 112 years, was gone. Thanks to technology, it simultaneously lives on in Google Maps while an empty lot in reality.

A two-story side-gabled I-House clad in vinyl and Formstone. It sports a flared hipped-roof porch supported by replacement metal posts connected by a replacement metal balustrade. Replacement windows and doors. 1930 CD: (908) S. E. Cook, 1940 CD: Edward and Elizabeth Haden (W), owner-occupant, a machine operator at Hanes Hosiery Mills; 1950 CD: same.

I-House – A 1 ½ or 2-story side-gable (two rooms wide and one room deep) traditional British folk form. The two rooms usually have an entrance hall between them containing a central stairway.

Formstone – a form of simulated masonry, Formstone is commonly colored and shaped on the building to imitate various forms of masonry compound, creating the trompe-l'œil appearance of stone.