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297 Ste. Marie Street Two-storey, eclectic red-brick house with buff-brick trim and low-pitch gables (c. 1880). Front Elevation Ground-floor is much-hidden by recent, red-brick addition with shingled mansard roof. Pair of half-glazed, wooden doors are original, having multiple, stained and bevelled, upper panes over two lower panels; also, wooden colonnettes at jambs. Second floor has two, 1/1 windows, with wood sills and flat-arch, buff-brick voussoirs with flush hood-mouldings which drop at upper jambs to buff-brick band-course. Witnesses in masonry at RH window indicate previous presence of balcony over front vestibule. Recessed wall to south contains balcony door with two glazed, upper panels (behind aluminum storm), while balcony itself has replacement railing with tall pickets. Beaded soffit boards are built off punctured, wooden brackets throughout. Wide, low-pitch, LH gable contains King-post truss with cusped braces, and various framed, circular holes at spandrels. Gablet at RH side has pendant post and ball-finial between cusped braces, while half-timbered gable at roof peak has framing timbers radiating from lunette. Shingle-mouldings exist at LH and upper gables. Side Elevation 4th Street elevation is dominated by two-storey bay window and gable. Flat-arch, 1/1 windows have buff-brick heads and flush hood-mouldings, dropping to band-course at upper jambs, as at front. Ground floor of bay has pitched, sheet-metal roof above, built off profiled brackets at corners. At upper levels, gable roof breaks forward over bay window, on braces spanning in two directions, with lower cusps and upper, pendant ball-finials. Apex of gable has (again) King-post truss with cusped braces and framed, large and small, circular holes at apex. Roof has light-grey asphalt shingles, and ogee-type aluminum gutters exist at narrow fascias throughout. A single, buff-and-red-brick chimney exists at east side.
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