| The2-1/2-story former single family residence was long ago converted to use as a restaurant, with residences above, and has been home to the Rimsky-Korsakoffee coffee house for about 30 years. The Colonial Revival Craftsman building was constructed in 1904 at the corner of SE 12th and SE and SE Alder Streets and is oriented East. The house has a full-width front porch with stone piers and turned columns supporting a hipped porch roof. The front entry is half-glazed solid wood door with wide leaded sidelights. Concrete steps at the northwest corner lead up to an additional entry porch covered by a projecting sunroom on the West. There is also a basement entrance on the North side hidden by a wooden fence and gate. A rectangular bay with three wood sash windows, and tall hipped roof with extended eaves and brackets projects from the South façade between the first and second floors. The North façade features a rectangular paired-window oriel with steeply-pitched hipped roof and a polygonal bay window projecting over the basement entrance. The asphalt shingle roof is hipped with an East-West ridge and hipped dormers on the East and North slopes. The roof also features solar panels on the south slope and two skylights on the north, a brick chimney at the West end of the ridge and extended flared eaves with brackets. Each dormer has three wood sash windows, with divided lights over a solid pane. Windows are primarily wood sash or divided light. Windows at the 2nd floor sunroom are paired or multiple pairs of vertically-oriented divided light casement windows. The building is clad with wood lap siding with corner boards. There is an adjacent concrete 2-bay garage sitting directly West of the house. The house is eligible and contributing to the district. |
