Historic Preservation Commission
1202 S. Fell Avenue
Built
Circa 1870
Designated May 15, 2000
In the 1870s, the land along Broadway and Fell between Irving and Virginia - together with adjacent areas on Virginia Avenue, Florence, Hester, and Payne’s Place - belonged to two of the Fell brothers, Jesse and Kersey. Jesse’s fifteen-acre estate, "Greenwood," occupied the northern-most portion, and Kersey owned the entire section between what became Vernon and Virginia avenues. When this area was developed in the 1880s it became knows as the Kersey H. Fell Addition; Kersey may have in fact been the developer. According to the 1890 City Directory, Kersey H. Fell, retired lawyer, was living on the southeast corner of Fell and Virginia at that time. The house that stands on this corner (1202 S. Fell) would seem to date from about 1870 and was evidently Kersey Fell’s house in 1890.