42697 Star Avenue


Year Built: between 1870-1879 
Architectural Style: Stick/Eastlake
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 188
911 Number: 42697
Street: Star Avenue
Address:  42697 Star Avenue, Thousand Island Park, NY 13692, USA  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, 1 ½ stories, two bays wide, with cruciform footprint and cross-gabled roof. Foundation concealed by vertical board skirting; board-and-batten siding; asphalt shingle roof. Two-story, full-width front porch. First-floor porch spans front of both front and side wings, wrapping around corners; second-floor porch spans front-gabled section only. Porches have delicate chamfered posts, square balusters, plain frieze band; first-floor porch also has scrolled brackets. Gable with pierced and spindlework trim at underside of roof, set back rather than at vergeboard, exposed rafters. First-floor porch shelters two single doors, at center, two-over-two window and second door at either side. Second-floor porch shelters two single doors. Front and side door and window openings have shouldered moldings. Cross-gable wings to either side are one bay wide by two bays deep. Cutaway corners at right (northeast) wing. Side windows include two-over-two double-hung wood sash and sliding windows. Large gable-roofed addition and shed-roof porch addition at rear, compatible.

History: This may have once been part of the Rochester boarding houses, per 1980 survey.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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