129 North Main St.

While this house has the proportions of a circa 1880/1890 vernacular Victorian house, there was probably a building on the site in the late 1850s. Since this is the only piece listed in tax records for John Davidson it seems likely that he had a dwelling here. The 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint consistent with many other small Greek Revival style houses in the Village built in the same decade, that is, an L-shaped footprint. The elevations of these houses had a one & 1/2 or two story section with a single story wing. The original section of this house still has that configuration. However the proportions are typical of later construction. Greek Revival buildings had low broad gently pitched roofs. This house has a narrower more steeply pitched roof typical of later architectural styles. Also the windows are more slender and taller than those found in Greek Revival houses. It seems this house was remodeled perhaps in the early 1880s when the tax assessed value jumps from $500 in 1880 to $900 in 1885. The brick chimney on the north side was probably added when the two story addition was constructed. The attached garage is a circa 1940s addition. A new detached garage was constructed in 2000. An aluminum awning, supported by wrought iron over an existing front porch, was removed in the last twenty years. The present porch, which replaced this, was fashioned after those typical of the vernacular farmhouse style.