One of the many buildings in Forest Home built by William McElwee, Sr. Most of these were stucco houses with fine hardwood interior woodwork and floors. This house is a variation on the traditional, vernacular open gable cottage style. It is a two-story slate-roofed dwelling with a stucco body and shingled gable ends. There is a full-width flat-roofed porch on the front, a low shed-roofed wall dormer on the east, and a bay window on the western facade. Windows are one-over-one and two-over-two double hung sash, with operating shutters. A small gable-roofed addition extends to the rear, and opens onto a wooden deck
Just south of this property are lands belonging to Cornell University which include natural woodlands and cultivated gardens that are part of the Cornell Botanic Gardens.
This building was built by William McElwee, Sr., to serve as his private residence and to house the offices of the McElwee Construction Company. McElwee was responsible for much of the construction in Forest Home during the second phase of its development. This phase occurred between ca. 1900-1915, and was linked to the growth of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University.
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Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000031. To access the Building-Structure Inventory form (sometimes referred to as the "Blue Form"), and from which some of the details above come, including the approximate year built, follow these
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