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HomeMy WebLinkAboutContinuation Sheet - 38 E. Main, Trumansburg.pdfN.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 38 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Narrative Description of Property VILLAG ' AN :RUFN 4�f ' 2. t * rJ 4 4 r � r � � ,1 23 The former single-family, three-story residence is situated on a hillside on the south side of Main Street, one building west of Elm Street. Despite its location in a commercial area, the large lot preserves a residential setting for the house. It retains a high degree of historical integrity. The structure (c. 1900) is a good local example of the later Queen Anne style. The building likely takes advantage of a balloon frame, allowing for the variety of projections, enabling the design to avoid planar walls in elevation. The house features a multi -gable roof. The gable ends have pain bargeboards with scroll ends and large overhanging eaves. The house is notable for its usage of wooden fish -scale shingles on all of the gable ends and dormers. The majority of the facades are sheathed with clapboard. The roof is clad with asphalt shingles. A three -sided bay with a window is located on the west fagade. A wrap around porch, common for the style, is on the main (north), east, and west facades. Columns with simple flat capitals support the first floor porch, as well as the second -floor porch centered on the main (north fagade) and another second -floor porch on the north fagade of the eastern projecting wing. The residence features double -hung wood windows with 2/2 lights. The windows on the east, west and south facades are overwhelmingly flanked by wooden louvered shutters. The previous 1977 survey indicated that the rear (southern) portion of the building was a later addition, but the 1905 Sanborn Insurance map indicates that it was original to the building footprint. The continuity of aesthetic details (clapboard, trim, windows). The use of posts on the western porch, however, and the peddimented overhang supported by brackets over the rear (south) entrance reference the contemporary Colonial Revival style. Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 38 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Narrative Description of Significance The residence was constructed on the site of Hermon Camp's first home in Trumansburg (c. 1820-1830), which was built before the present Camp House. The home was constructed between 1898 and 1905. Former Village Historian Lydia Sears suggested in 1977 that the residence may have been built around the original building. The surveyors of 1977 could find no evidence to support this theory. An examination of the May 1898 Sanborn Insurance Map, which shows the first Camp House, and the December 1905 map, which shows the current residence, the variations in the angles of the various parts suggests that the original house was demolished for the construction of the current one. However, the footprints do overlap, so the original basement/crawl space may have been retained. An examination of the basement would be necessary to reach more specific conclusions. Locally, the house is best remembered as the home of Edward Bouton (c. 1900- 1910), the former Village postmaster. (A stone marker outside the residence along Main Street bears his name.) During the mid -20th century the house was divided into apartments. The Peltz family bought it as a three-family home 1956 and converted it into a two-family house. The front room was also used as an insurance office. (Possibly Bouton Insurance, which was located in the Opera House Block prior to the fire of 1922.) Between 1973 and 1977 the Peltz's sold the house, and it was converted into four apartments. Oiva Vesa was the owner of the building as of 1977. Mrs. Peltz told the 1977 surveyors that the front room of the first floor was used as a tea room in the 1940s. The building is currently occupied by the Cayuga Addiction Recover Services. Partial History of Ownership of Building Date Acquired Book Page Gregg O. Hoffmire Senecalands Corp. 10/28/1999 862 142 (current owner) 12/31/2008 53615 3001 Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 2 r N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 38 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Figure 2: East facade Sources Celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States of America in the Town of Ulysses and the Village of Trumansburg. Publisher unknown: 1976. Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970. Ann Arbor, Mich.: ProQuest UMI, 2001. Martin, Carolyn A. Trumansburg, New York Incorporation Centennial." Trumansburg, NY: The Trumansburg Centennial Association Incorporated, 1972. Sears, Lydia. A History of Trumansburg, New York, 1792-1967. Location unknown: I -T Publishing Corp, 1978. Tompkins County. "Property Description Report For: 38 E Main Street, Municipality of V. Trumansburg." Image Mate Online. Accessed August 7, 2014. Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 4