Sunday, May 8, 2016

What Used to Be

Once upon a time, on the site of what is now Crosswinds, there was a Gothic Revival house. Twenty years ago, it was abandoned and apparently had been for a while. The word was there had been a fire. Although many remember the house, no pictures seemed to exist to document it. Then a few days ago, Thomas S. Murphy posted this picture of the house on the Facebook page You're Probably from Hudson, NY.
The house may have been built following a pattern from one of the architecture books of Andrew Jackson Downing, Alexander Jackson Davis, Oliver P. Smith, or Samuel Sloan, or its design may have been made up by a local builder inspired by those designs, but, either way, it certainly possessed all the characteristics of pointed Gothic cottage architecture--characteristics shared by a house that survives nearby on Fairview Avenue, next door to the McDonald's.

Photo: Paul Barrett
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2 comments:

  1. VincentMay 8, 2016 at 9:57 PM

    Then theres the recent disappearance of the gothic outbuilding next to McDonalds.

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  2. Seth TravinsMay 10, 2016 at 7:31 AM

    Is the gothic house on Fairview on the historic register? Despite the strip mall and McDonald's that's a nice piece of property.

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