“Baby Grand” (Charles C. Bowen Cottage, John Esaias and Charlotte Warren Cottage)

“Baby Grand” (Charles C. Bowen Cottage, John Esaias and Charlotte Warren Cottage)

At far right Photograph by Kathryn Bishop Eckert

At far right

1885; 1895 remodeled and enlarged. 6622 Huron Rd.

Charles C. Bowen converted a simple vernacular cottage built by Charles W. Caskey for John Esaias and Charlotte Warren into a double house linked with a full-width giant two-tiered, balustraded Ionic portico with two dramatic semicircular projections. The portico connects and conceals a T-shaped house on the west with a side-gabled house on the east: this elaborate white classical mansion results. A dentiled entablature on the first level and block modillions support the eaves of the second level.

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