Landmark Society Office


Year Built: between 1870-1879 
Architectural Style: Stick/Eastlake
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Public
Lot Number: 1555
911 Number: 42831
Street: St. Lawrence Avenue
Address:  {44.28717712994218,-76.02688971660233}  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame building, one full story with a tall attic; simple massing with rectangular footprint and front-gabled roof. Concrete pier foundation; wood cove siding; asphalt shingle roof. Full-width front porch with square posts, elliptical-patterned balustrade, and elaborate pierced sunburst-pattern ornamentation at spandrels and infilling triangles between gable trusses. Sawn and pierced patterned vergeboard. Three-bay facade with center door flanked by two wide windows with geometric pattern sash (upper sash have 16 lights above four lights all in the same sash; lower sash have two lights). Some side windows have similar configuration, but smaller: eight lights over two lights at upper sash, two-light lower sash; others are two-over-two. Built as a photography studio in the late 1870s; now houses the Thousand Island Park Landmark Society. The current porch rail and ornament, the vergeboard, and the front window and door configuration were reconstructed based on historic photographs; the porch was removed and the front window/door arrangement was altered in the twentieth century. The ca. 2005 reconstruction faithfully replicated the original design of the porch and gable decorative elements, based on detailed historic photographs.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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