With an unanticipated Southern finesse, this return version of the temple form serves to illustrate the growing freedom with which classic forms are now employed. The most outstanding feature is the two story colonnade as an unassimilated feature of the main structure - merely a facetious copy of a colonnade, closely resembling in this respect the facade of the Leavenworth house. Other unusual details include the balustrades with fine carved panels, also found on the Leavenworth house, the side entrance porch and porte-cochere with their delicate Ionic column capitals, and the Palladian window, a possible later addition.

There are more important and indicative features of this house to be considered, however. Special note should be made of the plain unfluted columns, usually adapted for lower class dwellings but seen once before on the rear columns of the Leavenworth house, and the correctly refined entablature graced with classic dental mouldings and elaborate mutules completely encircling the house and lining the pediment. These mutules, rarely introduced in Syracuse, are thoroughly classic from a surface viewpoint but when searchingly probed, they are mere blocks of wood in small scroll form and of no classic worth whatsoever (see figure 4). The window in the pediment and the flush clapboards on the facade are other features worthy of note.

Erected during the reign of George III, this house was the scene of marry brilliant receptions and dances, for Mr. Bennet was another figure of prominence in the early days, helping to construct both railroads and several plank roads. In 1904 the house was extensively "improved" and it is therefore dangerous to discuss beyond general terms its architectural inconsistencies. There is no question, however, that much of the original structure remains.