As I wandered around North Salem, New York, I came across a handsome home well hidden behind cast iron gates. At a glance I knew it was Italianate in architectural style. Then I started musing about what characteristics identify it as Italianate, a popular mid-19th century residential style.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has a short article about the Italianate style. This house checks all the boxes. A belvedere at the top. Overhanging eaves with substantial brackets. Tall narrow windows. A one-story porch. And cast iron decoration.
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Yes, clearly Italianate in style. It appears to be a 19th Century home of one of the captains of industry with room for a large family and their servants. It was a different age, and the cast iron gate keeps the riffraff out.
Beautiful architecture.
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