Name: | The Henry B. Wells House |
Address: | 771 South Warren Street and South Salina Street |
In this nearly final statement of the Revivalists lived Miss Etta and Henry B. Wells, the latter prominent as the shoe merchant of H. B. Wells and Company.
The features of the house are obvious, for here again are pedimented windows, square posts, bracketed cupola and rear wings. The incised doorway is an unusual detail with the added door panels in octagon form, very similar to those on the Finegan house, making for an imposing entrance. Particular note should also be made of the brackets that line the under side of the exceptiorially wide cornice. In the accepted sense of the wort, these are not strictly brackets, but rather versions of the mutules seen on the Dey house (page 209) here used in a simplified, extended form. Nevertheless, they offer the same effect as brackets. The cupola, too, carrying the wide cornice and brackets, completes an ensemble which is extremely engaging despite its decadence.