The old house at 424 East 21st Avenue, near St. Scholastica Academy in Covington, is being raised several feet off the ground to accommodate required foundation work, according to a person at the SSA Office. It was formerly the home of Mrs. Jeanne Theresa Connaughton and has most recently housed the admissions office of the school.
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The home was built around 1895 and is drawn in on the 1915 Sanborn building map. It is located within the downtown Covington historic district and is described as what is architectually known as a "Queen Anne Cottage" Its style was designated as a Colonial Revival in the Historical Building Survey of Covington.
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In this Sanborn building map from 1915, the house is shown outlined in red. At that time Vermont was opened south of Rutland, and East 21st Avenue was named Asia Street. Jahncke Avenue had originally been known as Louisiana St. On the northeast corner of the Rutland Street/Massachusetts Street intersection was a Roman Catholic Church with a parochial school mid-block, across the street from where St. Scholastica Academy is today. That half of the block is currently the location of a two story brick building and communications tower owned by AT&T.
