42632 Ontario Avenue


Year Built: between 1880-1889 
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 57
911 Number: 42632
Street: Ontario Avenue
Address:  {44.285777845134206,-76.03117004431915}  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories, with generally rectangular footprint and front-gabled roof. Two-story polygonal tower projects at right (southwest) corner. Foundation concealed by square lattice skirting; cove siding; asphalt shingle roof. First floor wraparound porch with attenuated turned columns, flared solid shingle-sided rail, plain frieze band; screens in first floor of tower. Second floor of tower is an open porch with solid-sided posts and arched spandrels in shingle siding; flared solid-sided rail in fishscale shingle siding. Gable with fishscale pattern shingle siding, three-part window, architrave trim at roofline. First-floor porch shelters decorative window, at center, one-over-one double-hung window at left set in a cutaway corner; single and double doors at right (in tower). One-story bay window and entry porch at left (northeast) side. Telescoping rear additions, including one-car garage, compatible. This is one of three originally identical cottages; the other two are at 17142 Eden Street (Lot 62) and 42731 Star Avenue (Lot 176).

Location within Thousand Island Park


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