Name: | The Dr. Babcock House |
Address: | 309 South McBride Street |
Rapidly approaching a true decadent stage, the Revivalists produced this home on the enlarged, already familiar, box principle with wide entablature, slightly sloping roof and twelvepaned windows so characteristic. The chief note, however, is found in the attic windows with their delicate grillwork rivaling and even surpassing some already discussed. The band of fretwork along the bottom is an unusual detail. The doorway in figure three is to be especially commended with the door panels sporting Greek anthemion carvings in a completely new manner.
But there are features of change. The heavy, shallow pedimented entrance porch with dropping finials (possibly later additions) has bowed to incoming Gothicism and the window frames have acquired a new pitched lintel - the Greek temple is becomig a Gothic church.