42698 Star Avenue


Year Built: between 1880-1889 
Architectural Style: Stick/Eastlake
National Register:
 Contributing
Use Type: Residential
Lot Number: 103
911 Number: 42698
Street: Star Avenue
Address:  42698 Star Avenue, Thousand Island Park, NY 13692, USA  
Structure Status:

Description & Additional Information


Frame cottage, two stories, with generally cruciform configuration and cross-gabled roof. Foundation concealed by flat-sawn decorative skirting; cove siding; asphalt shingle roof. Two-story, full-width porch, wider at first floor than second floor. First-floor porch, spanning front-gabled section and side-gabled wings, has turned posts, no rail, pierced brackets, and pierced-panel frieze. Second floor, spanning front-gable section only, has chamfered posts with brackets; double band rail, diagonal cross over flat-sawn panels. Gable decorated with truss, unusual elaborate pierced panels, pendant, and brackets. Decorative rafter tails exposed at eaves. First-floor porch shelters double front door, at center, with one-over-one window at either side; porch also shelters two secondary single doors and one-over-one windows at either side. Second-floor porch shelters two single doors. North and south wings are one bay wide by one bay deep. One-story, screened rear addition. The 1980 survey form described the evolution of this cottage from an original one-room cottage to its current form.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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