As described circa 1990, this rectangular house has an asymmetrical fenestration pattern and architectural details recalling the Queen Anne style of the late nineteenth century. There is a recessed front porch with Colonial Revival columns and closed rail, a cantilevered bay with Queen Anne window and a five-unit window group in a long shed-roofed dormer. The exterior is clad in clapboard on the first story, dormers, and gable ends. Alternating square butt and octagonal cut shingles cover the second story level. Windows are one-over-one double hung sash, casement and hopper types. The foundation is built with cut stone blocks. There is an attic-story kitchen and bathroom, along with two bedrooms, which have been used by student boarders in the past.
The small square outbuilding west of the house, referred to as a summer kitchen by a previous owner, is solidly constructed with a stone foundation, hip roof and shingle siding. This picturesque structure features removable walls on the west side of the building, applied curvilinear ornament and a roof top opening for a stove pipe.
A fire escape on the east side of the building was probably added ca. 1923 when the house was converted into a tourist home. The former carriage-house/garage was converted to residential use as 212 Forest Home Drive (date unknown). About 1973-74, while the house was owned by David and Kathleen Stoller, the kitchen was modernized and a two story rear addition constructed. This addition replaced a much smaller rear wing which had housed the kitchen and a second-story sleeping porch.
According to Albert Force, the house was built as the home of Judge Kent in 1910, and purchased by the Dunn family in 1920. Lawrence and Sally Dunn, who had been operating the Agricultural College Boarding House on Judd Falls Road (south of 103 Judd Falls Road, no longer extant), converted the house into a tourist home, opening as Forest Home Lodge in 1923. The business was run by Sally Dunn and, later, by her daughter Hazel. It finally closed in the late 1960s. With the purchase of the home by the Stoller family in 1973, the building was returned to single family use.
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