This is a modern artistic house; the exterior trimming is so arranged as to be substantial and durable, and is a grand house to occupy a sightly position - a river view or the intersection of streets. The outside cellar-way is under the stair balcony, as seen in the engraving. The house has a union stair-case, but we will make plans with back stairs cut off from front ones if desired. Price of plans, with bill of materials. . . . $40.00. Plan 1 - 48 x 47 feet. Height of first story, 10 feet; second story, 9 feet 2 inches. Plan 2 - 51 x 50 feet. Height of first story, 10 feet; second story, 9 feet 2 inches.
I don’t normally pontificate on this site, but this situation really pissed me off. In 2019, the current homeowners of this property paid 1.64 million, just to willfully and carelessly discard the historic home originally located there. What a sad and senseless waste. The original residence was an important piece of our nation’s architectural heritage, cast aside by those with plenty of money and no common sense or consideration for others. As the photos above accurately document, this home was in terrific shape and retained much of its original design and character. You don’t have to be an expert to see that this original home was beautifully unique, interesting, large enough for any modern family, and full of character elements representative of the mid-1890’s when it was created. But apparently, none of that mattered because the original home was discarded in the blink of an eye, and replaced with a modern cookie-cutter, run of the mill mega-mansion. Nothing epitomizes today’s throw away society more than this example of people spending over a million and a half dollars to discard a beautiful, perfectly useful, architecturally important work of art, for something that is already stale, bland and out of scale with its neighbors. The original house that was lost was the best preserved one of only four known examples of this particular design. Again, what a waste.