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HomeMy WebLinkAboutContinuation Sheet - 2 E. Main, Trumansburg.pdfN.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 2 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Narrative Description of Property + 25 lrA� ;J X13 + •r r � r 4? :aa w , 281 l V I LLAT L_73-1 UMAN l;r #2 is an ornate Italianate commercial style three-story building, the most impressive building of its contemporaries, as well as the tallest. The first floor is commercial and the upper floors are residential. An excellent local example of the style, the building features very showy and lovely brickwork on the main (north) facade. The third -story paneled cornice is especially notable, featuring dentils and small "houses" above the corbelled end brackets. The first story cornice is bracketed. The building retains the original 2/2 wooden double -hung sash, ornate round -arch hoods and a distinctive single "sill" that runs the length of both the second and third floors under the bands of four windows. The cast iron fagade is exposed and flanked at the western and eastern ends by brick pillars. The cast iron has paneled pilasters with daisy -patterned capitals. The only modifications to the openings are the slight enclosure of the doors (one main entrance, one to access the internal staircase). Below each of the plate glass windows are decorative "gothic" quatrefoil grill work, historically also present on the adjacent building, Rongovian Embassy (1, 3, 5 West Main). The brick on the rear (south) fagade is experiencing spauling; many spots have been patched with concrete, while gaps remain where bricks are missing. This fagade also retains part of the original window detailing. The sills are identical to the north and east facades, but the window are delineated with a flat arch constructed of brick. The upper halves of the second (3) and third floors (4) contain the original two fixed -lights. The bottom halves vary between double -hung sash with one/one (third floor) and 6/6 lights (second floor). The first floor windows have been filed to accommodate an attached, Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 2 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Narrative Description of Property (continued) raised, one-story addition sided with T-111 and covered with a shed roof. The building is accessible from an eastern staircase constructed of pressure -treated lumber. The basement can be accessed from a door underneath the addition. Narrative Description of Significance The second great fire in Trumansburg history (the first occurring in February 1864), erupted on May 5, 1871 and proceeded to destroy the parts of the commercial district that were spared seven years earlier. The fire erupted along the south side of Main Street and quickly spread among the wooden buildings. County Historian Carolyn A. Martin wrote, "Even buildings on that side of Main Street were lost, and when the fire jumped across the street four more went, among them the Washington House, one of the finest hotels for miles .... In all, twenty-three businesses were lost." As in the case of the 1864 fire, arson was suspected but never proven (Martin, 25-26). The row of predominantly brick buildings (the masonry Biggs Building is the exception, a replacement due to fire) along Main Street west of Trumansburg Creek were constructed after the 1871 fire. The previous lots were smaller and the buildings constructed of wood. The fire provided the opportunity for the creation of larger lots and the construction of larger, brick buildings in a compatible Italianate commercial style (Martin, 27). According to the History of Trumansburg (1890), F.B. Stone purchased the eastern half of a lot and "built ... the store occupied [in 1890] by C.L. Chapman" (90). The 1977 survey noted that the bricks many have been brought in from the Seneca Falls/Waterloo area, as Trumansburg never produced any great quantity of brick. The survey work for the first Sanborn Insurance Map in Trumansburg was completed in April 1887, listing #2 as a clothing store. It continued to be used for this purpose as designated on the December 1893 map and again on the May 1899 map. In this later edition, a hand -powered printing shop was located on the second floor. The building continued to sell clothing on the first floor as of the December 1905 map, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) utilizing the upper floors. Trumansburg's IOOF chapter, Tuckahannock, was organized in 1844 (Sears, 32). They rented the upper two floors of #2 until they completed their own building (25-27 West Main) in 1906. The December 1905 Sanborn shows a clothing store still occupied the first floor, and the December 1910 Sanborn indicates the clothing store expanded to sell boots and shoes. The final September 1929 map only indicates that the building contained a store. The 1977 surveyors interviewed Anna Tunison, who recalled the C.L. Chapman clothing store operating through the 1920s from this location. As of 2014, the first floor houses NY Pizzeria, while the upper floors contain apartments. Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 2 N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 2 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Narrative Description of Significance (continued) History of Ownership of Building_ Date Acquired Book Page W.J. Stone F.B. Stone David H. Laurie c. 1871 (current owner) November 4, 1997 808 157 Figure 1: Main (north) facade Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 3 N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 2 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Figure 2: Rear (south) facade Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 4 N.Y. Historic Resource Inventory Form - Continuation Sheet Address: 2 East Main Street Village/Hamlet: Trumansburg Sources Celebration of the Bicentential of the United States ofAmerica in the Town of Ulysses and the Village of Trumansburg. Publisher unknown: 1976. Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970. Ann Arbor, Mich.: ProQuest UMI, 2001. Goldstein, Carol and Tania Werbizky. "9-15-19 E. Main Street," NY Building Structure Inventory Form, Division for Historic Preservation. Albany, NY, Spring 1977. A History of Trumansburg. Trumansburg, NY: The Free Press, 1890. 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: 19 Main St E, Municipality of V. Trumansburg." Image Mate Online. Accessed July 29, 2014. Compiled by Katelin Olson, August 15, 2014 5