Is this house in your village? Figure out where it is and call or write to me, Ginny Scheer, to identify the house. (607-326-4206 or vscheer@juno.com) It is on the main street of a Delaware County village, so all you have to do is name the village. I have the GPS coordinates on my camera, so you can identify it that way if you wish.
When we were discussing the second two architecture challenges, the Warren farmhouse on Route 30 south of Roxbury (the yellow farmhouse, below) and the Victorian home of Dr. Moore in Andes (also below), I mentioned that after the Greek Revival there were many different architectural styles put forward for rural builders to emulate. One style that was promoted as particularly appropriate for country houses was the Gothic Revival Style, seen in the challenge above.
In the middle third of the 19th century there were books written about country houses by authors such as Andrew Jackson Downing, and many of the treated buildings used this style. Notice that the footprint of the house is no longer a rectangle but is not as complex as the footprint of the Moore house from later in the 19th century.
This house has many elements of the Gothic Revival Style: the intricately carved "gingerbread" trim on the eaves and the tops of the porch posts, the steep gables, board and batten vertical siding, and one side that has siding that is totally smooth, emulating stone. The stepped windows take the place of true Gothic pointed arch windows, but notice the very long windows - especially on the first floor - that in some cases go all the way to the floor. You might think it was a Gothic thing to do, but in fact this village sports just such long, tall windows on houses of many styles and ages.
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