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Hugh H. Carson House — 512 Knox Place

The Hugh H. Carson House is an American Foursquare house built in 1916.  It sits on a painted Joliet limestone foundation and is clad in clapboard siding with an asphalt shingled gabled, fore-and-aft ridge roof.  It has significant Arts and Crafts and Prairie features including distinctive and unusual six-over three (nine light) and four-over two (six light) upper sash and one-light lower sash double-hung sash windows, a triangular attic gable window matching the slope of the roof, reflected in the shallow-peaked trim board capping all three second story windows on the front façade, and echoed in the gabled, fore-and-aft ridged front porch roof.  It exhibits the horizontal, squat shape and embellishment typical of the Prairie style.  The eaves are open in the Arts and Crafts style. A narrow trim belt topped with a small cap circumscribes the building immediately below the second story windows. 

The front façade has several dominant features.  The full-width front porch, although common to many Joliet houses of this vintage, is unusual for its shallow-pitched, gabled, fore-and-aft ridged roof, as most front porches have a shallow-pitched hip or shed roof.  Also unusual and dominating is the very distinctive triangular attic window centered under the roof ridge at the attic level. 

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