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Home My WebLink About681 Jville Rd.pdfBUILDING -STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION ALBANY, NEW YORK (SIH) 474-0479 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO. QUAD SERIES NEG. NO. YOUR NAME:, Cynthia Crier DATE: 12/21/03 YOUR ADDRESS: 171 E.State St., #319- TELEPHONE: 272-1399 ORGANIZATION (if any)- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): 2. COUNTY: Tomp kins TOWN/CITY: f!lysses -- a : Jacksonville 3. STREET LOCATION: 661 Jacksonville Road,_Jac ksonvi 1 3:ew Y 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ® 561 Jacksonville Road, 1. PRESENT OWNER:nenneth ,lovenc`r,ie tFi i ADDRESS: Ja,c'ksu nville_,_ .esv ycrk 6. USE: Original: _R esi'JentiEl Present: Residential 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes Q No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain NO — private DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard 10 b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL..: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 9- STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members] (ii' known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 0. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good nx c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ® b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): There h. -s been a two—story F-ddit__on with a flat roof made to the north facade, z.nd also a one --story kitchen i..jith porch added tc the east facade. All of the a, flit ons were _:de in 1,029 !.:iy Kenneth 12.*MBcamp. Th�?.re are evidently njjtz-MAP? ba.lu trE�des clung the front porch. HP -1 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 0 b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RFLATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: 20th—century) a. barn® b. carriage house ❑ n garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ® f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: ., 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a. open land ❑ b. woodland 12 c. scattered buildings ❑ d. densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential EXI h. other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Set within thu rolling s grlc:ul,urnl hills of Wcksonville, the house is on grDde some 15 --fast above elevation of the road. Around the douse are two bLrns and a shed, and across the road is a Federol. style house jsled 16501, and owned by Robert Shaw. The hamlet's only, ocher ita1i._nta Villa is at C07 T umanshurg RA, 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURtS OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): (see attached sheet) SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Arrpea rs on the 18153 L 1066 atlas Maps. Tax Assessor dates the house 1075. ARCHITECT: BUILDER: ?R. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: The Kovencamp house is one of two I' .lunate vilIGs �n Jacksonville, A date of 1287 is cLrvej in t4e tower, and handwritten dates in the basement record late 19th -century hDrvests. Lewis H. Culver, first deed holder of record w_:s horn in =overt, Seneca County, Aujust,13, 1608. He come to Ha-lseyville, in Llysses, at the acre of seventeen to learn the trades of __ &qnsr _.nd currier. In Suptember of 1830, he moved to Ithaca nd founaad a grocery business which quickly grew anJ prospered. Ponsibly as L result of this success, he purchased the Jacksonville prep€arty as an investment and finally sold the Mace to Levi icucrer (larch 26, 1.653. (history of Cwnership ittache'j ) 21. SOURCES: -Interviews: Mr.&Nrs. Hovencomp -Tumpkins Caunty Atlas haps IB53 --Tompkins County Tax ,Assessor's 22. THENIE: _Tompkins Cnunty Clerk's 8. the 1-iuvencRmp's son-in-law. 1866 Cffice Cffice keel .research) Havencamp -douse: 661 Jacksonville road, Jacksonville, New York 18. This two--=and-c--half story houses has an irregular plan with a tower defining the. entrEnce. The entrance is equally Civided by two single paneled woolen doors surrounded by flat wood mold- ings. The ori gins l pert of the louse sets on e stone foundation. The: house is covered with wooden clapboard jading. The original p6rt of the structure is capped with three steeply pitched gable roofs (covered with asphalt shingles) with large overhangs sup -- ported '_:y Jelicate.l.y carved brackets. The tower is capped with a shallow bell shcped flet roof which is Elso supported by car- ved woojen brackets. The Cower rcpurtaJly has the gate of 1887 carved on its interior. All of th- ;orches except the front porch were added in 1926 by Kenneth Hovencamp. He also cdded (at the sLme time) a two-- story addition with C f1st roof on tho �orth focede. A one-Fnd- a-half stony kitchen wTs -lso j2ed with a shed roof on the north-ezgt f cWe. =11 cf Vc jit"ibn: sot on concrete' f7unda- ti.ons. The hausc vts Qn full f nry pnt chat still has tKe original hFnI ritten Mg of crops, hurvast iates, ..nd people responsible for >e '1•a:_rk. 'll Jf the windows on the original section of the house sre surrounied by Delicately carved flat moldings conforming tD tio _-Hope of the winJow openings, which rvnge from rectongulnr to ro:,n! heajed to arched openings. T`•e main :openings in the structure are Jenotcd ;y paired windows. .``ell of the original winjows =re two -over -two ,iGI.hle-hungsashes. The i°inZows on _ e gR lq 2n'o We tarred moldings. 11 of tha openings seem to be unique to the vier. There is c one-story projecting 'Wy w nwow with L wooden paneled base and chres two -over -two ,;rouble -hung sash windows. There are _'ecorative elements on the gable ends such as a cir- cular window with carved rip noldings on the nest facade, and a carved relief diamond shone ornament on the south facede. Thera are three - brick chimneys: one centrF ly located on the original 5ody; ono is offset can the added kitchen; the a0er _s locate.i centrally on Oc . :ck south-east leg of the originEl bcWy Cf t'Ke structure:. The :rns '.hot stand nn the Grower ty now tare 20th—can Lury structares. 20. kovenccmp . ouwn ( .i1itvray Lo;,.,_15) iwtrry of L1•?n'L^rs-;lip _late Acquired 3ook Page Hovencomp, Kenneth a Ls•ure 11/12/71 496 824 Hovencamp, Oilbur r Leslis J. 2/28/27 212 427 Hadley, Fred jederer, Levi 3/28/1853 60 5C1 Culver, Lewis 5cuth Fac7de F=ont Fccr:c;e ilovancF.np HOUSE!