The 1991 Building-Structure Inventory form described the house as follows: "This rectangular, two-story, open gable dwelling is oriented with its ridge line perpendicular to the street. The first story is sheathed in clapboard, and separated from the shingled upper story by a wooden strip or belt course. The main entry is via a gable-roofed enclosed porch. The porch floor is an extremely thick block of cast concrete, which was intended to stop any runaway vehicles before they could do damage to the house. A shed-roofed side entry and a shed-roofed carport grace the two sides of the structure. A two-story addition and a two-story deck project to the rear. Windows are mostly one-over-one double hung sash. There are tiny vergeboards and a delicate cross bracket featuring beading and geometric patterns in the front gable facing Forest Home Drive.
This building is situated on a sharp curve on the south side of Forest Home Drive, adjoining Fall Creek. Because it is built on a sloping site, there is a raised basement and one additional story on the rear of the structure. It was built ca. 1900-1915 by local builder Eugene Preswick.
The Gauntlett & Andrus Paper Company was at one time located on this property, below the house and close to Fall Creek. Apparently the factory operated only from 1846-1851, and then stood unused for many years before it collapsed. It is shown in the Extract in 1853 Map of Tompkins County showing Free Hollow (now Forest Home) [
https://www.fhia.org/historic-maps-of-forest-home/#1853].
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Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000064. To access the Building-Structure Inventory Form (sometimes referred to as the "Blue Form"), from which many of the details above are drawn, including the estimated date built, follow these
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