Bain Commercial Building

The Bain Commercial Building is a brick building from the late 19th century and stands on the corner of Church Street and West Main Street (NY- 9D) in Wappingers Falls, New York. It was founded in 1984 to the National Register of Historic Places added.

The building is the only remaining intact building in the architectural style of the Second Empire in this Village. It is also one of the few historic buildings in the region lying west of Wappingers Creek part of the Town of Poughkeepsie, who was once Channingville before this settlement was in 1871 merged with Wappingers Falls. The building has remained virtually unchanged since its construction and is used on the upper floors as a multi- family house and on the street level of use for commercial purposes.

Building

The two-story building has five bays in length and width and has the typical characteristic of the Second Empire on, sober in several colors mansard roof slates. The foundation of the building is built into the hillside, so some steps are necessary at the front of the house to reach the entrance. The centrally located entrance to the upper floor is flanked by three-part shop fronts, the inputs of which are surrounded by two large windows.

The eaves is verschmückt with outriggers and a paneled cornice, which is repeated in smaller, less ornament richer way above the shop fronts. On the second floor there are five windows, there are also three bay window on the roof, which is interrupted by chimneys in the middle of the northern or southern side. Cast iron columns supporting the building where the facade elements intersect.

To facilitate the change of use of the building as an apartment building, wooden stairs and shed were added at the rear, one of which is original.

History

It is believed that the family had built the house of Bain in 1875, shortly after Channingville became a part of Wappingers Falls. The house was both residence and business of the family, the second store was probably rented.

In the twentieth century, when the industry in the city declined gradually, the Bain family, who still owned the house, the apartments on the second floor were the descendants converted to apartments and made ​​the necessary modifications. The mixed use of the house still exists today.

Single building

Single -standing commercial buildings of the Second Empire are not common in an urban or suburban environment; the Bain buildings bearing witness to the less-developed settlement in Channingville at that time, in particular by its distance from the back and the Wappingers Falls Historic District. Through his various single-site refined adaptations of the architectural style have been possible, for example at the eaves, the arrangement of the beveled top of the window and the multi-colored slate roof.