222 Clay: irregularly-shaped late Queen Anne style frame cottage with I-gable roof and small front porch with box post and match stick railing filling space on west side of shallow gable-front wing; 3-sided bay augments front wing; molded box cornices with returns; aluminum siding over weatherboards, but good detail remains including scallopped and reverse-scallopped shingles in gables and dentil bands at base of gables; similar to 228 Clay and 303 and 305 S. Elm, all imne-diately east, with which it may have been built as a speculative venture; earliest known occupant Henry C. Townes, clerk at City Mills, here 1915; directory lists dentist R. J. Redman.
228 Clay: irregularly-shaped late Queen Anne frame cottage with T-gable roof and porch tilling stepped-back recessed west of shallow gable-front wing; very shallow rectangular window bay in frant wing has tripartite windom with stained glass transom in middle window; similar to 222 Clay and 303 and 305 S. Elm, adjacent, with which it probably was built at a speculative venture, but extensively altered with two types of aluminum siding, brick veneer and replacement foliate metal parch supports.
