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NPS ron. 0 900 I.’ 8:" United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For UPS use only National Register of’ Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form received OMIt No 074’ 018 I .p I0-Jl-04 Continuation sheet 45 Item number 7 Page 46 - Wapan Road cont. bUilt for Bradford Shinkle of Covington, Kentucky, president of the Covington Gas Company. 203 Wildacre 1916; William John Cherry of New York, architect: A large 2½-story, jerkin-head-roof, weathered-shingle, English Cottage-style dwelling with an off-center entrance under a bracketed hood; asym metrically arranged rectangular, arched, and segmental-arched windows; shed dormers; a massive exterior end chimney of stone; and 2- and 1-story wings running off one side. It was built for F. Kingsbury Curtis, previously owner of Shortlands see above. Curtis was active in the development of Tuxedo Park, New York, and Wildacre was part of a smal-1 developmental subdivision known as Tuxedo Homes. 204 Shoreby ca 1915: An asymmetrical 2½-story, L-plan, stucco dwelling. One wing has a massive gable roof encompassing its second story and attic, and the other wing is covered by a hip roof with an extended slope on the narrow end. Each wing has a recessed porch at its end. The one in the gabled section has stone posts and is now infilled; the one in the hipped section is arcaded. The main entrance, sheltered by an arched copper hood, is located in a polygonal 2-story, flat-roof pavilion set in the interior angle of the "L. " Massmve brick slah chimneys rise above the roof, which contains shed and gabled dormers. According to local tradition, the design of the house was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Black Arrow." The house was built for Frank Turnbull of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, owner of Rogers Peet Company, a New York clothing store. ‘-.TCH HTLL ROAD ‘ 205 Sea [haven ca 1965: A 2-story, gable-roof split-level dwelling with deep overhanging eaves, a shed portico over the entrance, and a second-story balcony deck. 206 Sunshine Garage and Chauffeur’s Residence early 20th century: A 1½-story, bellcurve gambrel -roof building with garage hays on the first story, long shed dormers, and a second-story balcony a later addition. Modern plate-glass sliding doors have been installed on the first story in place of the original door to the second floor. Built as a garage and chauffeur’s quarters for Sunshine see number - 238 , it is now a private residence. 207 Louisiana 1902: A modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flankgambrel roof encompassing its second story and attic. It is set on a lot at the corner of Sequan Road and oriented with its end toward See Continuation Sheet #46
NOS I olin III 001’ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet 46 item number 7 tVatch Hill Road cont. - For NPS use only received date entered Mit N,’ 1l-I 11111 I ‘‘I Ill ,I III Page 47 Watch Hill toid. The rear elevation, facing Sequan Road, is -more readily visible than the house’s facade. It has a shallow, endgambrel ell at one end and a broad, hip-roof dormer unit at the other end that rises two full stories above the first floor of the main block. This tower-like mass contains-an off-center, arched staircase window balanced by a picturesque array of asymmetrically placed rectangular windows of varied size. The facade northerly side has a recessed veranda sheltering a central entrance. The house was built’ for a Miss Carras and was for a number of years the summer residence of the Detrick sisters of Baltimore, daughters of Jacob Stoll Detrick, a mechanical engineer and inventor who was president of the Detrick Harvey Machine Company. 208 Merrivale 1903 : A Modern Colonial gambrel roof containing its second s end to the street on a lot at the co fronting on Watch [hill’ Road contains a enclosed with screens . On the flan a small 1-story projection and a long roof central unit that rises to a full windows have been repi aced with modern AUWTNNET AVENUE 209 York House ca roof, side-hall pyramidal-roof modern 1-story, of the original wind The house was owned dwell ing with a massive flank tory and attic. It is oriented rner of Popon Road. The end recessed Tuscan-column porch k facing Popon Road there is shed dormer with a small hip- 3-story height. Some of the sash. 1845 with additions -plan Greek Revival ca 1895 dwelling A 2½- story, end -gable - with a 3-story octagonal corner tower added in the lat e 19th century and a flat-roof side add ition with a pict ure wn dow. All ows have been replaced with modern casement sash. by J.C. York in the late 19th century. 210 Fairview l870s: A with a front veranda 1½-story, mansard-roof-,’ side-hall-plan cottage an off-center front gambrel, a side gambrel projecting mansard . out heart over a si de hay window, and shed-hooded dorme rs in the ftc g a in bre i S a me trimmed w I thi bargeboa i-ds con ta in i ng cut and cross shapes . For many years th is was the res i deuce of’ Postmaster W.N. York. 211 Hunt roo F Cottage, later Greycote dwell ing iv i th a cent ml ca 1850: cut r ance A 2½-story, Flank-gahle end-gable dormers, rear dl. projection containing a overhanging eaves trimmed The exterior is covered board and clapboard siding. Origin house was altered for Dudley Phelps , a front veranda, a central bay window over the veranda, gabled with bargehoards, and a 1½-story with a combination of verticalally built for Dr. Hunt, the in 1902 See Continuation Sheet #47
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