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HomeMy WebLinkAbout619 Jville Rd.pdfBUILDING -STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-4479 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO. QUAD SERIES NEG, NO, YOUR NAME: Jane Schwerdtfeger �— DATE:. December 26, 1983 YOUR ADDRESS:. 35 Goldwin Smith, CU TELEPHONE:.... (607) 273-4497 ORGANIZATION (if any): Preservation Planning Workshop, Cornell University IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): 2. COUNTY: Tompkins TOWN/CITY: Ulysses VILLAGE: 3. STREET LOCATION: 19 Jacksonville Road 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private El Kent 5. PRESENT OWNER: Obert and Brenda ADDRESS: 619 Jacksonville Road 6. USE: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road. Yes No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain no, private home DESCRIPTION oundati 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ® b. stone 9f c. brick LJ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: shingles on roof 9. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if knuvn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other' Aeeordin to Mr. Kent the basement cieling is 10. CONDITION: a: excellent ❑ b. good iD c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ® b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 19505-1960s (owner was not sure) a one story addition to -the rear of the house and sunporch were ' added. 12. PHOTO. — Cfl1 `l Jcu.Icsanv'if I� ��dd • . THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ER b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d.. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn ❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage Q d. priv ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other.: SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a. open land Ki b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d. densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential 12. h. other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF'BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS': (indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The house is,situated.on a quiet residential street. It is surrounded on the north, east and south sides by fields. A small creek runs on the south side of the Kent's property. On the other side of the field on the south side is a bungalow 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): This is a i2-story,roughly rectangular Greek Revival house with its gable end facing Jacksonville Road. A_smaller one story section of the house is attached to the north side of the main section; it has a low -sloping metal roof supported by one round column.. The main section has square pilasters at each corner; SIGNIFICANCE 1TE � � R N Mr. Kent guessed that the house was built 19. 1 e at� V,,T. bUCJIQ n indicates ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: 'A deed search..for the property was untraceable after 1959. Ruth K. Johnson acquired it in 1959 from the executors, of Della Gillespids estate (Book 422,'p. 417).- Margaret Miller was Ms. Johnson's cousin, and the house was willed to her by Ms. Johnson, who died in 1972.• (Book 529, p: 151) Richard and Linda McKeel bought the property in 1974 from Ms.. Miller. -(Book -529, P. 154) The Kents acquired .,the property from the-McKeels in 1979 (Book 570, P. 1006).'De- spite its alterations, this house is a splendid example of -the Greek Revival style. The proliferation of fine examples of this style in Jacksonville attest to the hamlet's economic prosperity in the first half of the nineteenth century. 21. SOURCES:, Deed Search'at the County Courthouse Map of •Tompkins County, New York, From Actual Surveys B24 L. Fagan. Philadelphia: Horace and Charles T. Smith, 22. THENIE: Publishers, 1853. ra Kent page 2 9. Structural System: is made of six to eight inch wood joists which retain their bark. Only half of the base- ment is excavated. The basement joists may indicate that the house is constructed of a wood frame with interlocking joints. 17. Interrelationship of Euilding to Surroundings: built in 1915. Across from it heading south is a residence most likely built in the first half of the twentieth century. 18. Notable Features: on the facade's gable end, they appear to support the wide entabulature. The entabulature does not return on either gable end. On the first story the entrance is on the left of two shuttered, double -hung windows having sic over one lights. The top of the sur- round projects outward. The two windows on the facade's second story follow the same configuration. The double doors are flanked by two thin pilasters which have two bands of wood angled to a point in the middle of each pilaster to simulate fluting. They support a wide frieze and heavy, projecting entabulature. A small casement win- dow is cut into the foundation to the right of the ezitrance. The one-story porch area attached to the north end of the main section is supported by two unfinished pieces of wood which were added recently. A central door is flanked by two double -hung windows with one over one lights. The low porch roof also has heavy frieze board underneath and forms a pediment on the north side before it rejoins the west wall. The north side of the house has four double -hung windows with six over one lights,and a heavy frieze board under- neath the roof. At the west end of the north side there are two pilasters; one facing west and one north. On the upper story of the larger section not covered by the one- story section to the north are two Frieze windows which are boarded over. On the upper level of the east end of the one-story section is a boarded over window; below is a modern window. On about three-quarters of the east end is a one-story addition which was added in the 1950s or 50s, according to &7r. Kent. The last quarter of the wall is taken up by the projecting one --story section on the north side. The addition has a cinderblock foundation and has one rectangular, horizontal casement window which is modern. Kent page 3 18, continued: A sunporch is attached to the east end of the addition, with an entrance on the south end. The south side of the house has three shuttered, double - hung six over one paned windows. Above it are three shuttered frieze windows which have been altered and ex- tend beyond the frieze band. The cellar is on the east end of the south side. A two -car garage is in the southeast corner of the yard; it appears to have been built in the mid -twentieth century. It has a cinderblock foundation and is constructed of a thin pressboard. 19. Date of ,onstruction: A building on this site appears on thq 1853 map of Jacksonville.