Samuel Brooks House (Cornwall, New York)
Samuel Brooks House was build around 1860 Cottage at the Pleasant Hill Road in the hamlet of Mountainville in Cornwall, New York in the United States. It is a mixture of different architectural styles of the Victorian period, especially Carpenter Gothic and Stick Style.
The location of the house near Schunemunk Mountain and its architecture made it a popular destination for New Yorkers, the end of the 19th century Cornwall were staying during the summer months. The building is almost completely intact and was enrolled in 1996 in the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP).
Building
The house is set back from the Pleasant Hill Road at the end of a semi-circular driveway. In its vicinity there are two scales that ' were both part of the original farm Brooks, which has since been broken up for a long time into smaller plots. Both are considered contributing buildings.
The cottage has two and a half floors, the slightly recessed south wing consists of only one and a half floors. The house has five bays and shingle- clad. The cross gable roof is covered with shingles and tar paper is delimited by a molded cornice with plain frieze. The pediments are in the form of an ornate wood carving by verge. They frame a pointed arch windows, which are provided at the highly visible from the side of the road to the south and east with hoods. A brick chimney rises on the northern end of the house.
A small entrance porch of wood has a flat roof, seated on arms cornice, posts with similar capitals and a deciduous sawn railings in between. On a side wing and the west are similar porches, but these are designed without fretwork.
The wooden door opens into the central hall. Most of the interior is original.
Behind the house is a two-story shed its outer walls is formed by vertically mounted boards. Another shed to the northwest is shingle- clad and has a covered with tar paper gable roof. Both are remnants of the original farm.
History
Brooks was descended from one of the oldest families in Cornwall. He built the house as a farmhouse around 1860. According to the American Civil War began summer guests from New York City to Cornwall to come and Brooks adapted his house, like Wilford Wood and Oliver Brewster rapidly in order to offer it as a pension can.