105 North Road Street

Selig-Parker House

Index #416.

1891

Contributing

Robustly-detailed 2-story Queen Anne style house has elaborate Eastlake woodwork; projecting wood-shingled gables over polygonal bays have shaped bargeboards that repeat scrolled rafter ends, robust gable ornaments containing semi-circle wheel motif, and large brackets containing quarter-circle motif at cutaway corners; scalloped molding on pent window hoods repeat rhythm of shingles; small 3-bay porch is carried by turned posts and invigorated with complex spindlework frieze and turned balusters with webs; handsome arched panels on double-leaf door; Louis Selig (1869-1928), a Norfolk native, founded jewelry store in 1882 that remains downtown; lived here from 1891 until 1903 when he built at 408 West Main Street (ECHD); house acquired in 1911 by merchant James K. Parker (1853-1919); in family until, 1950.