42856 Ontario Avenue


Year Built: between 1890-1899 
Architectural Style: Stick/Eastlake
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 234
911 Number: 42856
Street: Ontario Avenue
Address:  {44.288344923513165,-76.028049583992}  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories, four-bay by five-bay, with T-shaped configuration and cross-gabled roof. Front gable with bell cast roofline, steeper pitch over front gable and lower pitch over side porches. Foundation concealed by horizontal board skirting; cove siding; asphalt shingle roof. Two-story front porch wraps both sides, terminating at the front of one-bay-wide cross-gable wings. First-floor porch with turned posts, no rail, pierced brackets, pierced scroll-pattern frieze board. Second-floor porch has with turned posts, decorative flat-sawn balusters, pierced brackets, pierced frieze board at side wings. Highly decorative gable with decorative truss, spindlework band, sawtooth band, jigsaw bands, flat-sawn fan at peak, exposed rafters. First-floor porch shelters two single doors at front; two-over-two window and french door at left side; screen conceals additional openings. Second-floor porch shelters two french doors at front; two-over-two window and french door, at left and right sides. Side windows generally two-over-two double-hung wood sash. One-story gable-roofed addition, at rear, compatible. This is an excellent example of the later campground cottage form.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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