Dunning House
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| Dunning House | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Wawayanda, NY |
| Nearest city: | Middletown |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Area: | 1.1 acre (4,400 m²)[1] |
| Built/Founded: | 18th-19th century |
| Architectural style(s): | Federal, Italianate |
| Added to NRHP: | 2001 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 01001383 |
| Governing body: | Private residence, currently vacant |
The Dunning House is located on Ridgebury Road in the Town of Wawayanda, New York, United States. It is a wooden house first built in the mid-18th century and extensively renovated several times in the 19th. As a result it embodies a number of different architectural styles.
A modest two-room clapboard house first built around 1750, a then-common design with a few extant examples in the region, was later expanded in the early 19th century in a Federal style center-hall plan. The hallway still features a segmented Federal archway with its keystone supported by a pair of reeded pilasters. The hand-hewn beams, doors, trim and wall finishes are also original to that period and style.[1]
Later renovations added interior rooms with Greek Revival features such as architraves, moldings, cornices and medallions. In the Victorian era, a Stick style porch with chamfered posts and an intricate cornice molding was built on the front and an oriel window on the southwest side. Late in the 19th century a central front gable was added with a round window.[1]
The renovations and additions over the course of the 19th century have produced a modern house of two and a half storeys with five bays. It is located on a 1.1-acre (4,400 m²) parcel, overlooking the Slate Hill area, with one other building, a modern greenhouse not considered a contributing property.[1] In 2001 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places due to its relatively intact preservation of its stylistically different architectural features. It is currently unoccupied.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Bonafide, John (February 2001). National Register of Historic Places nomination, Dunning House. Retrieved on 2008-03-23.
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