Building at 73 Mansion Street

Building at 73 Mansion Street is the name given to a Grade II listed house in Poughkeepsie, New York in the United States, which first emerged in 1890 as a family home. It is located next to the U.S. Post Office Poughkeepsie and across from the Poughkeepsie Journal Building, on the corner of Balding Avenue.

It was built by a local real estate attorney and has since had numerous owners, including the type of use changed. The house is a clear example of the application of the Queen Anne Style in the city. It was not included in the adjacent Historic District because it is different from the houses at the Balding Avenue, and it took another 15 years until it was finally added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 itself. The entry is the only one in Dutchess County, which is not included under a specific name, but using his address.

Building

73 Mansion Street is a two and a half story house with timber framework on a wheeled base made of bricks. The facade consists of shingles with decorative shingles and painted trim. It sits a hipped roof that is covered with slate with lower cross gables and a pyramidal tower with weather vane, dormer windows and a brick brick fireplace.

The facade is characterized by overlapping surfaces and structures, quite in keeping with other Queen Anne houses. Some yokes protrude and are asymmetrically placed at the south facade and sides. The eastern gable has a curved Ortganggesims. Gutters run along the eaves.

On the ground floor the house has three inputs, each of which is provided with a front porch with a gable roof, two of which are supported by curved carrier. The window arrangement is similar eclectic and includes both round and polygonal windows and colored glass inserts in addition to angled mullions.

The building inside the outline of the asymmetry of the exterior design follows. Much of the original interior has been preserved: feathered moved patterned oak panels under the window at the front, stucco medallions on the ceiling in every room, chandeliers, banisters and oak parquet flooring.

Behind the house is a modern garage from the 1950s that is not contributing.

History

Charles Cossum built the house around 1890. His office was located three blocks further on Market Street. He was a successful lawyer. The location of his house at the northern end of the center of Poughkeepsie, only a few minutes walk away from his job, is characteristic of the period before the age of the automobile; Houses near the center were very popular.

His family owned the building until 1917. Until 1933, it changed hands several times. Then pulled out a one doctor, who practiced here and lived. His family owned it for many years. When the houses were classified around the corner in the Balding Avenue in 1982 as a historic district, saved you from 73 Mansion Street, because it was made ​​larger and wasteful than the more modest homes on the Balding Avenue.

The current (2009) owners purchased the house in 1995 and restored it with the help of tax relief; it was recorded in 1997 as a single house on the National Register.