As it stands today, this minute building is inexcusably discrepant with its French Mansard roof. Fortunatly, investigation leads to a strong conviction that there was at one time a pitched roof with resulting pediment. The roof was probably changed with the building of the small bay at the side which is known to have been a later addition.

Overlooking the present roof and semi-circular cornice, we are prepared to note several features of importance. Here is a return to the pilasters of the Hillis house wing, (page 114, figure 1 and figure 2), but with former proportions dntirely disregarded. Here is the porch of the Hamilton White house (page 176) with a pure Ionic order, and here too, is the tremendously over-sized entablature of the Dey house (page 207) - the delicate grillwork of the Leavenworth mansion - all of these details incorporated on a facade so ridiculously small that the evident lack of taste points directly to decadence. Singly, of course, the details are excellent and esrecial attention is called to the admirable grillwork*, the pilaster capitals, and the typical window headings.

Fortunately such over exuberance has been largely confined to this one single example.

Note 1: The author has been told that originally a wrought iron balustrade adorned the roof and a balcony enclosed the second story window. Whether or not they were original, is not known.