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Continuation sheet 4 - tern number 7 Page 5
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7 Craigie Brae late 18th or early 19th century?, altered late 19th
century: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof dwelling set end to the
street, with deep overhanging eaves, eave returns on the gahl e ends,
and a massive center chimney. A veranda on the northwesterly side
of the house shelters an entrance and continhes as a - recessed porch
in the end away from the street. There is an off-center entrance i.n
the street facade, and a Palladian stairhall window, a columned
porch, and an asymmetrically placed interior chimney on the southeasterly
side. The house is now covered with aluminum siding * It
appears that this structure might be a Colonial - or Federal -era
dwelling altered in the Colonial Revival style, but no house is shown
on this site on any maps prior to 1895. At the turn of the century
the house was owned by Dr. James MacAllister of Philadelphia and used
by him as a summer residence. MacAllister, a native of Scotland,
served successively as superintendent of the Milwaukee and Philadel -
phia Public Schools and as president of the Drexel Institute of
Philadelphia.
2 Sunset Hill 1913-1915; Grosvenor Atterhury and John A. Tompkins,
architects: A rambling 2-story, hip-roof stone villa situated on
a dramatic hillside site surrounded by p-aved terraces and terraced -
lawns. The house comprises a central section flanked by splayed
wings connected to the main mass by squat octagonal towers with
low-pitch conical roofs. The building embraces. a courtyard closed
by a high stone wall pierced by shuttered arched openings. Detailing
includes arched window openings on the first floor, a central how
window, and wrought-iron 2nd-floor balconies. The landscaping was
executed by Wadley Smythe of New York. The grounds contain a
preexisting octagonal gazebo with a flaring conical roof topped hy
a dovecote. The house was built by the R.A. Sherman Company of
Westerly for Mary Thaw Thompson, -daughter of Pennsylvania Railroad
magnate William Thaw of Pittsburgh and wife of William R. Thompson
of New York. Sunset- Hill has long been owned by prominent New York
financier and businessman Hunter S. Marston.
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9 Everbreeze. ca 1930: A 2½-story, gable-roof, clapboard neo-Colonial
dwelling with an asymmetrical facade containing an off-center
entrance under a gable-roof portico.
NC 10 North Cove ca 1910: A 2½-story, gambrel-roof, dwelling with shed
dormers and paired exterior end chimneys. Set on a sloping site, the
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- See Continuation Sheet #5