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HomeMy WebLinkAbout579 Perry city Rd.pdfBUILDING -STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0474 YOUR NAME: Jane Schwerdtfeger FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO. QUAD SERIES NEG. NO. DATE: December 30, 1983 YOUR ADDRESS: 35 Goldwin Smith, Chi TELEPHONE: ( 607) 273-4497 ORGANIZATION (if any): niversity IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): 2. COUNTY:`1'om.nking TOWN/CITY: Myssps VILLAGE: 3. STREET LOCATION: 579 P rry Ci ty 'Road 4. OWNERSHIP: a. ublic ❑ h private 91 chard 5. PRESENT OWNER: Egand Jean_ TrPn-- ADDRESS:79 Perry City___R 6. USE: Original: Present: residpnne 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes El No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain no, primate Goma DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard IN b. stone EFOUq 14n d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: metal roof 9. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if knovn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a• excellent ❑ b. good KI c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): circa 1930-- Owen and Mabel Carmen remodelled the first floor and installed a kitchen and a bathroom. The original kitchen was what ii & the dining room. Some 12. PHOTO. I \ 4ilK,dtff aV ! COLLEG.6.■ i ROA _ rn ■ bpacttg � .�� 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known E3 d. developers ❑ f. other: b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ e. deterioration ❑ 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn IN b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ® f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: three stone or cement harness posts in front 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): hous0 rid a. open land ® b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d. densely built-up ❑ ' e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ 'g. residential KI h. other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The Trenchard's home is about 4-5 miles west on Perry City Road from New York State Route 96. Across a field and about one hundred feet to the west is a Victorian farmhouse, while there are fields to the east and north. It is placed about 12 feet 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): from the road. This is a very well preserved 12 story Greek Revival house which is generally rectangular. The house has thin corner boards. The south gable end of the facade has three.bays on both the upper and 'lower levels. All five windows are shuttered, double -hung, and have six over six lights. The door is on the SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa • 1854- . This house appears on the 1866 map of Jacksonville under -the owner's name, Lets (Letts). ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Only three families have owned this house, including the Trenchards. The house is believed to have been built by the Letts family in the mid - nineteenth century. In 1881, Julia Letts married Frank Carmen, who was a member of a prominent Quaker family in the area. Yx. Carmen lived there until 1941, when he died. Owen Carmen, Frank Carmen's son, and his new wife Mabel moved in at this time. Mabel Carmen died in the late 1970s and the house was sold with all its furnishings to the Trenchards in 1979. Many furnishingsssuch as the beds with tris -crossed rope to support the mattresses, are from the early nineteenth century. A framed box with a glass front holds a delicate flower wreath 21. SOURCES: Conversation and tour of the Trenchard, December 1983 2.2. THEME: A Farm Journal article of their home and New Topographical Atlas of To Actual Survevs Especially Stone and Stewart, Publish house with owners, Doug and Jean circa 1959 devoted to the history its past owners. nkins Countv. New York, From ers, So Trenchard page 2 11. Alterations: remodelling may have also occurred after December 7, 1941, since one of the interior walls was insulated with newspapers announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor. Since 1979 when he and Mirs. Trenchard bought the house, he has made routine repairs such as fixing leaky cielings. In 1983 he began adding onto the rear of the house, consciously working to maintain the home's architectural integrity. The addition extends about eight feet back and will house a new bathroom on the west side and a small dining room on the east. The addition appears to be in keeping with the rest of the house. 18. Notable Features: east end of the gable and is accen- tuated by two fluted pilasters supporting an entabulature. The shutters on the door hide its flanking sidelights; a transom is over the entabulature. The heavy frieze band dies not return on any of the gable ends. The adjoining gable projecting east has a one-story porch with a low-pitched roof and entabulature supported by three fluted columns. The fourth on the west and is a pilaster matching the others. A panelled centrally --placed door is flanked by two large shuttered, double -hung six over six paned windows. Above the porch are two frieze band windows whose decorative wooden grilles were hand carved after the dilapidated originals by Mr. Trenchard. A flush gable brick chimney is located on the east gable end. The east gable has two windows each on the upper and lower levels which match those on the facade. On the north end of the east side is a 12 story section with a low over- hanging porch roof. Its pediment -like gable is supported by one square column. Two frieze windows are over the porch and illuminate the "hired man's" room. Underneath the porch are two windows on either end matching those on the facade, and an entrance in between. On the north end of the east wall is a woodshed which is attached to the house. .This section has double doors but no windows. The -west side of the house has two large shuttered windows on the first floor matching the others and two frieze windows above. The north end of the house which is not part of the woodshed is where the Trenchard's addition is being constructed. A small board and batten shed and a barn are to the northeast of the house. Trenchard page 3 18. Continued: The interior of the house is in excellent condition. The original kitchen, located on the east side, has a large brick fireplace and baking ovens set into the brick beside it. A small circular stairway leads up to the bedrooms on the west end of the house. One of these bedrooms has its orizinal nickel stove with "1847 Utica NY" on the front. The basement has a long slate slab table which the Carmens in the nineteenth century used to keep their milk cool. In the basement, Pir. Trenchard found that the stone walls are of a double construction and have rock rubble in the airspace between them for insulation. 20. Historical/Architectural Importance: painstakingly made from bird feathers. Most of the furnishings were tagged by Mable Carmen; one chest of drawers indicates the man who made it and that the 'armens received it in 1847. The furnishings which belong with the house eloquently de- scribe what the inhabitant's lives were like. For example, the "hired man's" room is above the kitchen and a small trap door in his room covered the chimney pipe from the fireplace. Mr. Trenchard noticed a pulley set into the beam above the trap door, and an eye in both the trap door and the wall above the man's bed. By pulling a rope attached to the trap door, the hired man could open the door to heat his room without climbing from bed. This well-- preserved home is rich in its architectural integrity and in the history of its owners.