Triangle Area

Triangle Area

Greek Revival houses at 222, 218, and 214 Main (left to right) Photograph by Mark Mones

Greek Revival houses at 222, 218, and 214 Main (left to right)

Greek Revival houses at 222, 218, and 214 Main (left to right) Carpenter Store (now Wash House Carpenter Store (now Wash House) Greek Revival House at 214 Main Greek Revival House at 218 Main Greek Revival House at 222 Main Two-story house at 170 Main Two-story house at 160 Main Two-story houses at 170 and 160 Main
1850s-c. 1890. College St. at Main St.

A cluster of stores, churches, and industrial structures, dating mostly to the last half of the nineteenth century, form the core of the commercial part of town located near the so-called Triangle where Main and College streets meet. The Carpenter Store (1888, now Wash House; 250 Main) is one of the least-altered commercial buildings, with a three-bay, gable-end facade featuring plate-glass windows flanking the central entrance. Several houses give a decidedly antebellum character to Main Street. The brick Greek Revival houses (1850s) at 214, 218, and 222 Main illustrate popular mid-nineteenth-century local features such as double-pile center-passage plans, stepped parapets with chimneys, and corbeled brick cornices. A pair of two-story houses (1880s; 160 and 170 Main) with irregular rooflines, shingled gables, and projecting one-story porches suggest the exuberant Victorian spirit that characterizes many of the Valley's turnpike towns.

Writing Credits

Author: Anne Carter Lee