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Home My WebLink About610 Jville Rd.pdfor BUILDING -STRUCTURE INVENTORY NORM DIVISION! FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 YOUR NAME: Jane Schwerdtfeger FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO. QUAD SERIES NEG, NO. DATE: November 16, 1983 YOUR ADDRESS: 35 Goldwin Smith, CU TELEPHONE: 273--4497 ORGANIZATION (if any): Preservation Planning Workshop, Cornell Universitt IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S) 2. COUNTY: Tompkins TOWN/CITY: Ulysses VILLAGE: 3. STREET LOCATION: 10 Jacksonville Road 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private IN Hou.swortb S. PRESENT OWNER:William and Imogene ADDRESS:610 Jacksonville Road b. USE: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain no . private home DESCRIPTION foundation 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ® b. stone ® c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL.: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 1%. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kn(avn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. C'OND1TIONI: a. excellent ❑ b. good K7 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a_ original site Rq b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations end dates (if kno n): According to Mr. Housworth, the building was in disrepair when he and his wife acquired it in 1964.He has made several changes to the Interior. He removed the chimney from the south gable end and in- g�: a stove pipe, partitioned olffMWrt of the kitchen to form a N 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known EX b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage 12 with small house { i d. privy ❑ e.�shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ attached to it. g. shop ❑ h. gardens El i. landscape features: one large tree in south . side of yard j. other: unused well shaft in the south side of yard 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a. open land ❑ b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d. densely built-up ❑ e. commercials f. industrial ❑ 2`g: residential �I h. other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING -AND SURROUNDINGS: close totetherlroad Son tae is in an quiet historic residentialThe street�.oIthdirectly 's home lfaces uaned open field to the west, The far eastern edge of the property abuts the Methodist-Episcopal church's yard. Across a small street next to the house on-the south side is a slightly changed Greek Revival home. The next house continuing south is a Victorian farm house. On the other side 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): This is a one and a half story building following an L-shaped plan. The main section of the building is square, with a rectangular section at- tached•to the south end of the east side of the main _structure. According to the present owner, this latter area originally functioned as a wood- SIMA CRCFoom. The main facade has four bays and faces the Jacksonville 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:, 1870 This is the date listed_ in the tax ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This residence is situated in Jacksonville's area of earliest settlement, the crossroads of New York State Route 96 and the Jacksonville Road. It is about four houses north of the actual crossroads. Although it �n�iotA6ne of the earliest structures surrounding the crossroads, it most likely represents the continuing growth and expansion of Jacksonville during the latter half of the 19th century. A. list of owners and their dates of ownership follow on the next few pages. 21. SOURCES:. Conversation with William Henry Housworth on 11/5/83 Deed search at Tompkins County Courthouse 22. THEME: Footnotes: 1. Photograph belonging to the hamlet's historian, Nancy Dean. Inventory Form continued 11. Major alterations: breakfast nook, and installed ceiling tiles in the dining room and living room. An outhouse was at- tached to the rear of the house (originally the storeroom area) which was also removed circa 1964- Mr. Housworth also built an open porch onto the south side of the storeroom area within the last ten years. 17. Interrelationship to surroundings: of the Jacksonville Road to the northwest (after the field) are two Bungalows. It is in scale -t-& the other houses surrounding it. 18. Features: Road. The medium -pitched roof is covered with hexagonal asbestos shingles. A friezeband underneath the roof has slight returns on each of the gable ends. The stone foun"- dation has been cemented over, but it is still visible in areas where the cement has chipped away. Judging from the heavy exposed beams in the storeroom, the frame is joined by mortise and tenon construction. The interior walls are constructed of lathe and plaster. On the main fspade, the entrance is slightly off -center towards the right. The small porchlight above it has faceted sides of opaque purple glass. The front stoop is a large slate slab balanced on block -shaped stones. There are two windows to the left of the door, and one towthe right. All three windows are double -hung, and have six over one lights. Both the door and. the windows have plain surrounds. In the basement there are two small'rectengular casement windows flanking the entrance. There are no windows on the upper story. The corners of the building are covered by thin corner boards. A wooden watershed about six inches wide encircles the house right above the foundation and below the clapboard siding. This protects the foundation from water seepage. The south gable end on the first story has another entrance flanked by two windows, both having six over one lights. This entrance has a smaller slate stoop. There are two windows on the upper story, also with six over one lights. The fenestration on the north gable follows the pattern of the other windows. There are three windows on the first story; two are the some size a.s those on the main facade, while one is smaller. All have six over one lights. The fenestration on the second story is identical to the south gable end. The rectangular storeroom may be an es.rly addition to the main structure because the clapboards joining the two parts -were laid on differently. Those on the storeroom part overlap and are not laid parallel to each other. A slight break between the two structures can be seen in the clapboard. Inside, one must step up to go from the storeroom into the kitchen. The z Housworth, page 3 18. interior floor of the storeroom is constructed of planks roughly eight inches long. There is also a built-in chest made of the same wood. The west end of the storeroom has a small rectangular window with six lights. On the south end of the storeroom is a window with eight over eight lights, and a rectangular one -pane window to the left. This latter window is an addition by Mr. Housworth. The thin molding surrounding the panes and the slender shape of the former window cause it to look older than the others. Attached to the south end of the storeroom is an open porch which Mr. Housworth built within the past ten years. It has a flagstone patio. An entrance leads into the storeroom on this side also. 19. Date of Construction: assessment records; no information was found to prove or disprove its accuracy. Its vernacular appearance is similar to the "Old Lockwood House" on Cold Springs Road 1 , particularly in the placement of the.•bays and in the lack of windows on the facade's upper floor. Although this building does not have a precise date of con- struction, the nine over six paned windows, the friezeband and its slight returns on the gable ends may indicate a date early in the nineteenth century. Housworth, page 4 20. Chronology of Ownership: 1864- Nelson and Sarah Ayers bought the property where the house is now situated from William and Angeline Plough. The acrage consisted of 49.5 acres. They also bought another parcel of fifty-seven acres. (Deed Book 1, p. 274) 1867- Sally Wilcox bought the 49.5 acres from the Ayers'. (Book 1, P. 586) The house could have been built by this owner circa 1870. 1874- Sally Wilcox deeded the land to Sarah Plough. (Book 4, P. 98) 1882- The land now came under the names of both Sarah and. Edward Plough, her husband. (Book 138, p. 430) 1891- Warren G. and Charlotte Farrington acquired the land from the Plough's. Mr. Farrington was a prosperous businessman in the egg -shipping trade at this time. He also sold hay carriers which were installed in barn lofts. (Book 138, p. 431) 1918- William and Theodesia VanDine bought it from the Farrington's. Berne Moss was also recorded in the same deed as a holder of the land and house. These two were recorded February 20, 1956. (Book 385, p. 288) 1956- William T. Allen bought the property from the two deeds of VanDine and Moss. (Book 385, p. 288) 1964- Imogene Housworth acquired it from Allen. Mr. Hous - worth indicated a familial connection of some sort between Allen and his wife. (Book 454, p. 297) According to Mr. Harland Knight, r+fir. Allen was a blacksmith in the early- to - mid twentieth century. 1976- The property was put into the names of both Imogene and William Henry Housworth. (Book 553, p. 584)