Eye candy of the week

Owners: Julianne and James Rosinksi

Shortly after buying this home, its owners located a 1933 photograph of the house taken soon after its construction in 1925. The photo shows the house on the western edge of what was the city’s newly platted Strathmore Addition. To the east, the streets of this plat shift off the typical Jeffersonian grid and continue diagonally until reaching the city’s Avondale subdivision. With the exception of a small building in the photo’s background, all the neighboring homes would be built later. Intersecting dirt roads and sidewalks are lined with a parallel row of saplings, which are now fully grown trees.

The Colonial Revival home has remained essentially unchanged since the time of the photo. Its horizontal clapboards are in excellent shape and, unlike many houses in the area, remain free of synthetic siding. The home exhibits strong Greek Revival influences, like the wide trim boards that anchor its corners and are then capped by authentic Greek returns, finished with flat metal stock. A small porch added to the east pleasantly balances the original flat roofed garage. Screened panels were recently added and are detailed to retain the character of the paneled porch columns, finished with the locally popular green and white.

— Daniel E. Bollman, AIA

“Eye candy of the Week” is our weekly look at some of the nicer properties in Lansing. It rotates each with Eyesore of the Week. If you have a suggestion, please e-mail eye@lansingcitypulse.com or call Andy Balaskovitz at 999-5064.