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ARCHITECTURAL INFLUENCES 1780-1970
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15*	920	South Beach - Brignac House	- Although not easily identified as	to
a	specific	style this fine beach house	is the only building in the county
which shows the specific influence of Frank Loyd Wright and the "Prarie School". The broad open galleries and very large overhangs together with the intense, rythmic detail of the ballisters and railings all date this house from the pre-World War I period. Sun room windows are a later addition.
16.	The house behind 984 South Beach and 986 South Beach - Tradition has it that at one time these two structures were one house known as the Jewish Federation Home which was divided in the 1940s as a settlement of an estate. Visualizing the two parts joined presents a unique Victorian grand house of the turn of the century. The octagonal corner porches, the V shaped dormers
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and the east porte-cachere are inventive and imaginative details from that period.
17.	202 St. Charles Street - This gray house with white trim is an
excellent example of a more modest shotgun house from the late Greek Revival with early Victorian influence. It dates from early i860 and has good proportions and good simple trim. The color is typical of it?s period and it is one of	the	few in which the galleries have not been screened.
18.	242	St. Charles Street - A very	nicely restored early Victorian with
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good color selection, probably the original slate roof and an excellent Paladian window in the high gable. The shutters are not original, but are ir. keeping with the style.
19.	241 Ballentlne Street - This old cottage though in poor condition har
very gooa proportions and unusually fine turned wood columns. It probably dates from 1880 and is one of only a few from that period. The iron fence is probably not original to the property but is appropriate to the period of the design. The extensive tree shading adds to the charm of the setting.
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