Samuel Brooks House
Samuel Brooks House is a cottage built around 1860 on Pleasant Hill Road in the hamlet of Mountainville in Cornwall , New York in the United States . It is a mixture of different architectural styles from the Victorian period , especially Carpenter Gothic and Stick Style .
The location of the house near Schunemunk Mountain and its architecture made it a popular domicile for New Yorkers who stayed in Cornwall during the summer months in the late 19th century. The structure is almost completely intact and was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996 .
Building
The house is set back from Pleasant Hill Road at the end of a semi-circular driveway. Nearby are two sheds that were both part of the original Brooks' farm, which had long since been broken up into smaller lots. Both are considered contributing buildings.
The cottage has two and a half floors, the slightly recessed south wing consists of only one and a half floors. The house has five bays and is clad in clapboard . The cross-gable roof is covered with shingles made of tar paper and is delimited by a molded cornice with a simple frieze . The gable triangles are in the form of a by carving decorated verge executed. They frame pointed arched windows with hoods on the south and east sides that are easily visible from the street. A brick fireplace rises at the north end of the house.
A small wooden entrance porch has a flat roof, a cornice sitting on cantilevers, posts with similar capitals, and a sawn railing in between. There are similar verandas on the side wing and in the west, but they are designed without fretwork.
The wooden door opens into the central hall. Most of the interior is original.
Behind the house there is a two-story shed, the outer walls of which are formed by vertically attached floorboards. Another shed further to the northwest is clad in clapboard and has a pitched roof covered with tar paper. Both are remnants of the original farm.
history
Brooks was descended from one of Cornwall's oldest families. He built the house as a farmhouse around 1860. After the Civil War , summer guests from New York City began moving to Cornwall and Brooks, like Wilford Wood and Oliver Brewster, quickly adapted his house to be able to offer it as a guest house.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Anthony Ardito: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Samuel Brooks House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . October 1995. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
Coordinates: 41 ° 25 ′ 17 " N , 74 ° 4 ′ 29" W.