16870 Prospect Avenue


Year Built:  1918 
Architectural Style: Other: Swiss Chalet
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 1528
911 Number: 16870
Street: Prospect Avenue
Address:  16870 Prospect Avenue, Thousand Island Park, NY 13692, USA 
Structure Status:  

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories, three-bay facade, with rectangular footprint and front-gabled roof; oriented to the water (southeast) with rear facing the road (northwest). Foundation concealed by vertical board skirting; board-and-batten siding; asphalt shingle roof. Two-story, full-width front porch. First-floor porch has square posts, solid vertical board rail with incised diamond detail, scrolled brackets, plain frieze band. Second-floor porch projects slightly, with posts and rail matching first-floor porch, screened. Solid gable with board-and-batten siding, slight prow-like projecting roof shape, and colorful emblem affixed at center. First-floor porch shelters single door, at center, three nine-over-nine windows at either side. Plain frieze band continuous at second level. Side windows generally nine-over-nine double-hung wood windows. Front and side first-floor windows have wood shutters with cutout crescent moon motif. Two-story, partial-width porch at rear, with square posts, flat-sawn solid-sided shingle rail, square lattice upper rail at first-floor porch, second-floor porch has rail matching front porch. This cottage was designed in a distinctly Swiss style that is unique in Thousand Island Park.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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