42869 Home Avenue


Year Built: between 1910-1919 
Architectural Style: Stick/Eastlake
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 466
911 Number: 42869
Street: Home Avenue
Address:  42869 Home Avenue, Thousand Island Park, NY 13692, USA  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories, two-bay facade, with gable-and-wing configuration. Foundation concealed by horizontal board skirting; cove siding; standing-seam metal roof. Two-story front porch; both levels span front of front-gabled wing; first-floor porch extends to right (east) and wraps corner, with square and turned posts, square balusters, pierced brackets, plain frieze band; partially screened in. Second-floor porch, spanning front-gabled section only, has chamfered posts, flat-sawn balusters, screened in. Gable features decorative truss, square spindlework frieze, elaborate trim at vergeboard. First-floor porch shelters single door, at right, and paired broad one-over-one windows at left; side porch shelters two sliding glass doors, on south side. Second-floor porch shelters two single doors. Left side gable and rear gable with decorative trim to match front gable. Side windows include one-over-one and two-over-two double-hung wood windows. Two-story cross-gable wing on west side, one bay wide by two bays deep, with paired one-over-one first-floor windows, two-over-two second-floor windows, and vergeboard trim matching front gable. A one-story wing extends west from the west wing, with paired sliding and swinging doors. West addition 1987, compatible.

History: Notes written on one of the cottage’s studs read “1862 Tent Platform,” “Burned 1890,” “1899 at Teddy Beckwith’s Cottage on this site – burned 1912,” “First T.I.P Visit 1899,” followed by some illegible notes and a series of dates in the 1940s and 1950s. Apart from the clearly inaccurate 1862 date (13 years before Thousand Island Park was created), these dates presumably relate to the history of the cottage. If it was in fact burned in 1912 as the third note suggests, it was rebuilt to resemble an older cottage in footprint and character; there are only minor changes in footprint between the 1905 and 1914 Sanborn maps. The 1980 survey described it as a late nineteenth-century building, without making reference to the handwritten notes.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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