42501 County Route 100


Year Built: between 1890-1899 
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 879
911 Number: 42501
Street: County Route 100
Address:  42501 County Rd 100, Thousand Island Park, NY 13640, USA  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories with attic, with complex Queen Anne massing; main hipped roof with multiple cross-gable and tower forms creating a complicated roofline. Foundation concealed by diamond lattice skirting; wood shingle siding, with some clapboard siding at sides and rear; asphalt shingle roof. Full-width, one-story front porch with solid rail, square posts, and arched spandrels, with round one-story pavilion with conical roof at southwest corner; screened openings. Two-story front-gabled bay projects at center front, with two-part awning-style window at second floor beneath pent-roofed hood; triple one-over-one windows in attic with decorative geometric upper sash and segmentally arched hood with inset decoration. Three-story tower with sandstone base and steeply pitched conical roof at southwest corner, behind first-floor porch pavilion. Diminutive recessed balcony with turned post at second floor southeast corner; door opening onto porch has multipane stained-glass window. Band of fishscale shingles at second-floor eaves, wrapping front and sides of house. Side and rear windows generally one-over-one double-hung sash. Telescoping rear additions with gable and shed roofs.

History: The 1980 survey provided a circa 1879 construction date for this cottage, which may be the date of the first lot lease, but the Queen Anne style of this cottage suggests a later construction date.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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