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HomeMy WebLinkAboutContinuation Sheet - 1843 Trumansburg Road.pdfN.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet
Address: 1843 Trumansburg Road
Village/Hamlet: Jacksonville (Ulysses)
Narrative Description of Property
The two-story brick residence, # 1843, situated on the northeastern side of
Trumansburg Road/Route 96 is one of two excellent examples of the local Italianate style
in the hamlet of Jacksonville. (The Trees at 1822 Trumansburg Road is the second.)
The residence exemplifies common attributes of the Italianate style with
restrained detailing. Constructed of double -brick walls, there is about three and six inches
between the two walls. The main block is rectangular with low-pitched, hipped roof.
Single, simple decorative brackets emphasize the widely overhanging eaves. Originally,
the main roof and side porch supported fancy metal grillwork.
The main (southwest) fagade is subdivided into five bays and has a centered
porch. The hipped porch roof is supported by four posts with simple bases and capitals,
resting on top of a stone foundation. The porch was a restoration by the Williams pre -
1983, using a 1879 engraving as their guide. (It is unclear from the 1983 survey if any of
the porch is original; the foundation is clearly a replacement.) This fagade retains five
double -hung sash with 6/6 lights on the second story and four double -hung sash with 2/2
lights on the first floor. The brickwork above each window is slightly arched, and is
contrasted from the rest of the facade by a double row of brick ends. (The curved shutters
present during the 1983 survey have been subsequently removed.)
The main entrance on the southwest facade is centered in the middle bay. The
double -doors are glass for the upper portions; the bottom portion is paneled. The bell pull
embedded in the door was operable as of 1983. Two pilasters matching the porch posts
appear to support the lintel above the doorway.
The northwest facade has three bays on both stories, and each story has three
windows. The windows have double -hung sash. As on the main facade, the second -story
windows have 6/6 lights and the first -story ones have 2/2 lights. The two casement
windows on the basement level are capped by stone lintels.
On the rear (northeast) fagade, the previous owners, the Williams, constructed a
one -and -a -half story addition that is clad with board -and -batten. Ot has a medium pitched
roof and a small section projects form the southeast corner of the northeast wall. This
smaller projection from the addition has a wide window made of thirty -top panes on the
southeast wall, and one with sixteen panes on the northeast wall. The second story is
trapezoidal. A raised deck surrounds sliding doors and the entire addition was constructed
over a poured concrete pad.
The southeast fagade also has three bays, which match the fenestration on the
northwest wall. A centrally-placed door on the first story opens onto a porch that was
enclosed (c. 1997). A raised deck (c. 2013) extends off of the enclosed porch to the
northeast.
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N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet
Address: 1843 Trumansburg Road
Village/Hamlet: Jacksonville (Ulysses)
Narrative Description of Property (continued)
The "T-" shaped two -and -a -half story board and batten barn in the northeast (rear)
portion of the property. Its northwest facade has two pairs of sliding doors. It has a
variety of glass paned windows on each level. It rests on a stone foundation. According to
the 1983 surveyors, an 1879 engraving of the property showed that the barn once had a
cupola. A second barn and batten barn/shed also belongs to the property, and was situated
behind 1845 Trumansburg Road as of 1988.
Narrative Description of Significance
The residence at 1843 Trumansburg Road has a well-documented, rich history.
Warren G. and Charlotte Farrington were listed as living on this property in the Map of
Tompkins County (1853), and so were probably the first owners of the house. In 1858,
Farrington and Cyrus Howe, a local tax accountant, formed a partnership in the egg
pickling and shipping business, which Howe had begun several years earlier. In 1870,
Farrington erected a large building on the property to accommodate the increase in
business. After his partner, Howe, died in 1871, Farrington continued in the same
business. (Note: The Harringtons were also associated with 5065 Jacksonville Road,
likely using it as a rental property. See that property's Historic Resource Inventory Form
for more information.)
In March 1878, the large building, which Farrington constructed eight years prior,
was destroyed by a fire. He rebuilt in May of the same year, and appears is the same barn
that still resides on the property. The southwest wall of the barn has "CEV 6-3-78"
burned into one of the plants, which may refer to one of the persons who helped to finish
the rebuilt barn. According to The History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler
Counties and Biographical Sketches of prominent Men and Pioneers, "The barn measures
fifty by sixty-six feet, with underground apartments that contain twenty vats six feet in
diameter and four feet high. He packs and sells an average of 170,000 dozen eggs
annually, using for his pickle lime, salt and saltpeter" (545-546).
According to the 1983 survey, Roger and Patricia Williams (owners as of 1983),
found a trove of business records from the late 19th century in the barn. It appears that
Farrington and a man named George Fowler formed a partnership circa 1880 and sold
sulky plows and hay carriers. The latter device attached to a metal track in the roof of a
hay loft, and slid along the track and out the loft door to be let down by pulley to pick up
the hay bales on the ground. From the large number of business letters from all over the
United States which Fowler and Farrington received, this was a popular device. Records
from coal companies and metal foundries indicate that there may have constructed their
own equipment. Many businesses in the Midwest also marketed their equipment. Two
Spanish export journals, published in the United States, even solicited Fowler and
Farrington to market their tools abroad.
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N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet
Address: 1843 Trumansburg Road
Village/Hamlet: Jacksonville (Ulysses)
Narrative Description of Significance (continued)
In the early twentieth century, John and Alice Warner Chase acquired the
property and ran a dairy farm and the "Empire Milling Company." As of 1983, the chutes
from which they ground floor s and meals were still visible in the barn. The Williams
also found Chase's ledgers from the late 1910s and early 1920s. In them, he mentioned
the metal cleats attachable to shoes in the winter that he patented under the name of "ice
creepers." He and Mrs. Chase were both Grange members, and he played a viola in the
Jacksonville orchestra. Nancy Dean, the hamlet's historian, remembered that Chase was
still farming the land to the rear (northeast) of his house in the 1940s.
"W Farrington" is connected to the property on the Map of Tompkins County
(1853). As this is quite early for the Italianate style in Jacksonville, it's likely that a
previous structure was demolished in order to construct the current residence. Instead, it's
likely that it was constructed in conjunction with Farrington's commercial success in the
late 1860s or early 1870s.
Partial History of Ownership of Property Date Acquired Book Page
Warren and Charlotte Farrington
John and Alice Warner Chase
Hubert Dorn
pre -1853
c. 1915 through early 1940s
(unknown owners between mid -1940s-1964)
Roger and Patricia Williams
(current owner)
1964 452 333
1972 502 11
5/23/1991 661 1082
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Address: 1843 Trumansburg Road
Village/Hamlet: Jacksonville (Ulysses)
Sources
Fagan, L. Map of Tompkins County. Philadelphia: Horace and Charles T.
Smith, 1853.
Schwerdtfeger, Jane. "Building Structure Inventory Form: 1843 Trumansburg Road."
Jacksonville, NY. December 1983.
Tompkins County. "Property Description Report For: 1843 Trumansburg Road,
Municipality of Ulysses." Image Mate Online. Accessed July 2, 2014.
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