Earlier this month, architect Walter Chatham, representing the Galvan Foundation, submitted a plan to the Historic Preservation Commission to build a garage/apartment structure behind 123 Union Street that is a miniature replica of the house in front. The proposal will be the subject of a public hearing on Friday, February 14, at 10:00 a.m.
In justifying the plan to replicate the original house in the design of the accessory building, Chatham maintained that it was a common phenomenon in the South to have an outbuilding that was a miniature version of the main house. (The same argument was used to justify the two houses of different proportions Galvan built on Willard Place.) Chatham admitted he had yet to find any examples of this practice in the North.
By sheer coincidence, this photograph of an octagonal house in Homer, NY, popped up on Facebook today, on a page I follow called "Upstate New York in Pictures." Note that behind the octagonal house is an octagonal carriage house that more or less replicates the main house.
I wonder if this example will be presented as evidence that replica outbuildings were a "thing" throughout the country in the 19th century.
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