Oliver Brewster House
The Oliver Brewster House is a neo-Gothic house on Willow Avenue in Cornwall , New York in the United States , directly across from the Willow Avenue Elementary School . Originally built as a farmhouse in the mid-19th century, it was later expanded and converted for use as a guest house as Cornwall became a popular destination for summer vacationers from New York City .
It has remained almost completely intact from that time, unlike most of the other farmhouses in the area. In addition, some farm-related outbuildings have been preserved. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
description
The house stands on approximately 1.6 acres of trees and bushes on which there are a total of seven structures and buildings, six of which are considered contributing .
The main building is a two-story house with five bays that is clad with narrow boards . The house has two one-story side wings, three bays protruding from the main block in the northwest and two in the southeast. In the northwestern corner of the gable roof , a sitting of brick masonry fireplace. The roof itself has a drawn-down eaves , the rafters are exposed. There is a molded cornice under the eaves . The basement is made of stone.
A wooden veranda with a flat roof runs the entire length of the ground floor on the southwest side over the main wing and the two side wings. A similar veranda at the rear (facing northeast) is glazed.
The centrally located main entrance consists of a paneled wooden door that is inserted in a recessed corridor. The door frame and the side window frames are made of wood. The entrance opens the way to the main hall with the large rooms on the side. A large part of the interior is original, such as the floor, the ceiling panels, the open fireplaces with mantels from marble , the sliding between the mat spaces and the stairway with the spindle post and the balustrade .
To the southeast of the house is the first of the contributing elements, a well house with a hipped roof . Behind it there is a two-storey shed serving as a coach house with a gable roof and a tongue and groove technology facade as well as a small outhouse that also has a gable roof.
The main shed has a crooked roof at the end gable. Modern garage doors are built into three of the four yokes ; in the fourth yoke there is a wooden double door with a small door to the attic above. A nearby shed is clad with vertical floorboards and also has a gable roof. Finally, there is a modern garage on the site, which is the only structure on the site that is not considered to be a contributory factor.
history
Brewster built the original house, consisting of the main wing and south-east side wing, around 1850 on a property that then belonged to the De Crissey family, into which he had married. He and his wife started growing fruits, mainly strawberries , raspberries and other small berries. The two were the first farmers in the Hudson Valley to cultivate the Niagara vines here .
A little later, New Yorkers who spent the summer in the countryside became an important economic factor in Cornwall. Like other local farmers, such as Wilford Wood and Samuel Brooks , Brewster expanded the house to accommodate summer guests. For this purpose, the northwest wing was added in 1860.
In the 20th century, the farm was finally sold and the area divided, creating the residential areas that surround the property today. Except for the added garage, the 1.6 hectares remained unchanged. The property is still privately owned today.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Anthony Ardito: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Oliver Brewster House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . October 1995. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
Coordinates: 41 ° 26 '20 " N , 74 ° 2' 14" W.