1215 Fayetteville Street – A. S. Nurse House

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile with an engaged front porch, a large, gabled front dormer with balcony, and a full-width, shed-roofed rear ell. The house has a brick foundation, vinyl siding, and an interior corbelled brick chimney. Original one-over-one, double-hung beveled glass windows remain on the first floor façade; all other windows are replacement vinyl windows. The original one-light front door remains in place; a replacement door in the front dormer is flanked by original one-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows. The engaged front porch is supported grouped posts on weatherboard-covered piers with a replacement railing. The Craftsman-style posts are paired on either side of the center stair and are in groups of three on the outside corners of the porch; wood cross-braces tie each group of posts together and they are connected to a wide beam just below the porch roofline. The house retains braces in the dormer and gable ends, though they have been covered with vinyl. The second-floor “porch,” accessed by the front gable, has vinyl-covered knee walls with a replacement railing across the front. An exterior fire stair has been added to the north elevation and several window openings on the south elevation have been shortened. County tax records date the house to 1925. The earliest known occupant is Aubrey S. Nurse (dentist) in 1925. By 1930 it was home to John W. Pearson, who ran a pharmacy in central Hayti; his family remained in the house through 1950. The house was constructed according to a Sears, Roebuck and Company mail-order design. As of 2012, the house was owned by Lavonia Allison.