Building at 73 Mansion Street
Building at 73 Mansion Street is the name of a Grade II listed house in Poughkeepsie , New York in the United States that was first built as a single family home around 1890. It is next to the US Post Office Poughkeepsie and across from the Poughkeepsie Journal Building on the corner of Balding Avenue .
It was built by a local real estate attorney and since then has had numerous owners and the type of use has changed. The house is a clear example of the Queen Anne Style application in the city. It was not listed on the adjacent Historic District because it is different from the homes on Balding Avenue, and it was another 15 years before it was finally listed on the National Register of Historic Places itself in 1997 . The entry is the only one in Dutchess County that is not included under a specific name, but under its address.
building
73 Mansion Street is a two-and-a-half-story timber frame house on a painted brick base . The facade is made of clapboard with decorative clapboards and painted moldings. On top of it sits a hipped roof covered with slate with lower cross gables and a pyramidal tower with a weather vane, dormer windows and a brick chimney.
The facade is characterized by overlapping surfaces and structures, in keeping with other Queen Anne houses. Some yokes protrude and are placed asymmetrically on the south facade and the sides. The eastern gable has a curved cornice . Gutters run along the eaves.
The house has three entrances on the ground floor, each of which has a porch with a gable roof, two of which are supported by curved beams. The window arrangement is similarly eclectic, including both round and polygonal windows and colored glass inserts alongside angled mullions.
Inside the building, the floor plan follows the asymmetry of the exterior design. Much of the original equipment has been preserved: herringbone-like patterned oak panels under the windows at the front, stucco medallions on the ceiling in every room, chandeliers, banisters and the oak parquet floor.
Behind the house is a modern 1950s garage which is not contributing .
history
Charles Cossum built the house around 1890. His office was three blocks down on Market Street. He was a successful lawyer. The location of his house at the north end of the center of Poughkeepsie, only a few minutes' walk from his place of work, is characteristic of the period before the age of the automobile; Houses near the center were very popular.
His family owned the building until 1917. Until 1933 it changed hands several times. Then a doctor who practiced and lived here moved in. His family owned it for many years. When the houses around the corner on Balding Avenue were classified as Historic Districts in 1982, 73 Mansion Street was left out because it was larger and more lavish than the more modest houses on Balding Avenue.
The current (2009) owner bought the house in 1995 and restored it with the help of tax breaks; it was added to the National Register in 1997 as a single house.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Laurie Allen: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Building at 73 Mansion St. ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . February 1, 1997. Archived from the original on May 28, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′ 25 " N , 73 ° 55 ′ 37" W.