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ARCHITECTURAL INFLUENCES 1780-1970
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502 North Beach - Winnard House - This house is a perfect example of high Queen Anne style of about 1895* The projections, details, variety of spaces and textures all reflect the flamboyance of the period. The house today looks much as it did in a photograph in the September 5> 1903 edition of the Sea Coast Echo. It was probably painted in shades of tan, mustard and brown so popular at that time. The original roof was wood shingles.
5.	224 North Beach - Gex House - This house probably dates from the 1840s and is basically Greek Revival as indicated by the capitals on the front porch columns and general proportion and details of window and door trims. Dormers are a much later addition and not in the style of the original. Victorian trim at the eave line is also later. The iron fence at the sidewalk is quite handsome and one of the few remaining from its periou.
6.	208 North Beach - de Montluzin House - Built in 1900 this large but chaste house reflects a sentimentality for the Greek Revival in the columns and well proportioned cornice, but dates itself with the double pitched roof, shingled gables and turned porch ballisters. Proportions of the house are excellent.
7.	100 South Beach - Hancock Bank - Built in 1901 as the Bank's first
permanent office it reflects the then popular Beaux-Arts Classic style with details selected from several periods including the arched	entrance	and	the
stucco cornice. Exterior detailing is not very refined	but	original	interior
marble detailing (now removed) was quite sophisticated. The exterior
of the structure appears almost exactly as it did when	built except	for	the
metal canopy and glass entrance doors.
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