17137 Coast Avenue West


Year Built: between 1890-1899 
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 78
911 Number: 17137
Street: Coast Avenue West
Address:  17137 Coast Avenue West, Thousand Island Park, NY 13692, USA  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories, with irregular rectangular footprint and roof combining hipped and gabled forms. Foundation piers concealed by shingle siding and square lattice grates; cove and clapboard siding; asphalt shingle roof. Two-story full-width front porch. First-floor porch wraps left (northeast) corner, with paired round posts, battered shingled piers, solid-sided shingle rail, arched spandrels with shingle siding, plain frieze band. Second-floor porch enclosed with shingle siding and arched, three-part, one-over-one windows. Gable with fishscale pattern shingles and Palladian window. Wide fascia continuous along roofline at first and second floors. Porch screening conceals openings. Side windows generally one-over-one double-hung sash. Fieldstone chimney at right, bay window at left.

History: Sanborn maps show that the cottage had a two-story, open front porch as of 1905, to which the one-story projecting front porch was added by 1914, wrapping around the north corner.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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