42730 Island Avenue


Year Built: between 1890-1899 
Architectural Style: Stick/Eastlake
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 126
911 Number: 42730
Street: Island Avenue
Address:  42730 Island Avenue, Thousand Island Park, NY 13692, USA  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, one-and-one-half stories, with gable-and-wing configuration. Foundation concealed by square lattice skirting; wood board-and-batten siding; asphalt shingle roof. Two-story, full-width front porch; first-floor porch wraps right (southwest) wing; second-floor porch integral, beneath front gable. First-floor porch has turned posts, turned balusters, pierced brackets, and pierced frieze board with repeating scroll pattern; right portion, wrapping side wing, is screened. Second-floor porch has square posts and turned balusters. Gable has raking spindlework frieze at eaves, decorative truss, pierced panels, decorative exposed rafters. First-floor porch shelters single entry door, at left, one-over-one window to right; porch also shelters secondary door and two one-over-one windows at front of side wing. Second-floor porch shelters single door. Shed dormer with paired one-over-one windows at front of right wing; gable dormer on left (northeast) side. Side windows include one-over-one double-hung wood sash, casement, and twelve-pane wood windows with four-pane transoms. Gable-roofed rear addition with cupola. This is an excellent example of a simple early gable-front cottage, later expanded with compatible additions.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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