In 1853, Donald and William Kirkpatrick moved into this house. Both prominent salt manufacturers with offices at 13 North Salina Street*, it was they who so generously endowed the Onondaga Historical Society.

Their home might be compared with the Egyptian Dey house on page 207, for its scale is of the same bulkiness and crowning the false pediment is a similiar anthemion carving (unfortunately with just the lowermost portion of it showing in figure one). Similiar too, is the balustrade hiding the roof. Regrettably, the resemblance ends here as beyond lie nought but ugly square piasters and a total lack of delicacy. Rugged are the dental mouldings and pilasters; the entablature is monumental and the flat window pediments are desperately clutching for some classicism.

Of unusual interest, however, are the commendable flat clapboards and the second story windows apparently in a transitory stage from small attic "stomach windows" to full size openings.

As with the house on page 244, this too is brutal almost to the extinction of any classicism and is not to be considered as a particularly happy solution.

Note 1: See page 39.