Samuel Brooks House (Cornwall, New York)
Samuel Brooks House | |
 Front (east) elevation, 2008 | |
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| Location | Mountainville, New York |
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| Nearest city | Newburgh |
| Coordinates | 41°25′17″N 74°04′29″W / 41.42139°N 74.07472°WCoordinates: 41°25′17″N 74°04′29″W / 41.42139°N 74.07472°W |
| Area | 1.3 acres (5,300 m2)[1] |
| Built | ca. 1860[2] |
| Architectural style | Carpenter Gothic, Stick |
| MPS | Historic and Architectural Resources of Cornwall |
| NRHP reference No. | 96000148 |
| Added to NRHP | March 8, 1996 |
The Samuel Brooks House is located on Pleasant Hill Road north of the hamlet of Mountainville in the Town of Cornwall, New York, United States. It is a cottage in a mix of Victorian architectural styles, most notably Carpenter Gothic and Stick Style, built around 1860.
Its location, near Schunemunk Mountain, and architecture made it a desirable location for the summer boarders who made Cornwall a popular resort community in the late 19th century. It survives mostly intact today. In 1996 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Property[]
The house sits back from Pleasant Hill Road at the end of a semicircular driveway. There are two barns near it, both part of Brooks' original farm, long since subdivided. Both are considered contributing resources to the NRHP listing.[2]
Two and a half stories high with a setback southern wing one story shorter, the five-bay house is sided in clapboard. Its cross-gabled roof, shingled in asphalt, is trimmed with a plain molded cornice with plain frieze and ornate carved vergeboards in the gables, framing a pointed-arch window with hood molding on the more-visible southern and eastern faces. A brick chimney rises from the north end.[2]
A small wooden front entrance porch has a flat roof, bracketed cornice, piers with similar capitals and a cutout railing in between, and a plain frieze. The wing and west (rear) face have similar porches without the cutouts.[2]
The paneled wooden door leads to a central hall. Many of the finishings and trim in the 3,066 square feet (284.8 m2) of interior space[1] on both stories is original.[2]
Behind the house is a two-story vertical-sided wooden barn with a cross-gabled roof shingled in wood. The other barn, to the northwest, is sided in wood shingles with a gabled asphalt roof. Both are remnants of the original farm.[2]
History[]
Brooks, a descendant of one of Cornwall's oldest families, built this as a farmhouse around 1860. After the Civil War, summer boarders from New York City began coming to Cornwall, and Brooks quickly adapted it for use as a boardinghouse.[2]
The house has remained a residence ever since. Since September 2008, it has been for sale.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c "115 Pleasant Hill Rd Mountainville, NY 10953". realtor.com. September 7, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ardito, Anthony (October 1995). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Samuel Brooks House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
External links[]
- September 2008 listing at realtor.com
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