YEAR BUILT:1885
STYLE:QUEEN ANNE
ARCHITECT:ARTHUR H. VINAL

Rising from a brick terrace, the exterior of this dramatically massed and whimsically detailed house is decorated with stucco panels and studded with terra-cotta ornaments. Arriving in the entry hall one is greeted by an abacus-balustered stair and abstract Anglo-Japanese stained-glass windows whose tertiary colors are typical of the Aesthetic movement. From here one may turn left into a parlor with painted woodwork and corner fireplace or proceed directly ahead into a small library with cherry wood whose horseshoe-arched fireplace betrays a Moorish influence. Beyond is a large dining room, the bowed end of which is a continuous window seat below a screen of delicate spindlework.

Here another corner fireplace with multi-paneled overmantel cupboard completes the room, while a modern kitchen with new cabinets and stainless-steel appliances is at the rear. Upstairs, the bedroom floors are laid in parquet patterns that vary from room to room in contrast with the plain strip flooring of the downstairs rooms. Much of the third floor is occupied by a large, oak-paneled guestroom, whose rich, masculine air suggests its original use as a billiard room.