The Tabor-Wing House is located at NY 22 in Dover Plains, New York, USA. It is a skeleton house built in 1810 by a prominent family in the area, which is relatively intact today.
It has an unusual amount of decoration for Federal-style buildings. Therefore, and its importance in local history, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Between 1979 and 2003 it was also the home of the Dover Plain Library.
After the library moved, the Dover Historical Society donated the building to Dover Town, which began a restoration completed in 2006. Today it is used for several municipal government offices and as a local history museum.
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Build
The house is located on a half acre 2,000 m 2 land at the intersection of NY 22 and North Nellie Hill Road, which becomes Cemetery Road to the south of the house. It has a two-story main block, five bays with smaller wings, both supported by a full rock basement. The main block is on the side of the board, while the wing uses a flush board. The tarred asphalt roofs had chimneys on all three ends and very soft tops.
The western front (front) is very well decorated. A small foyer with a sheltered roof shelter located at the main entrance topped by leaded glass transoms and flanked by sidelights and pilasters fluttering up into a muscular entablature with modified cornice. Above the entrance is a tripartite Palladian window. Another window trim echoes the main entrance, as do the curved windows in pairs in the attic on the north and south profiles. The smaller kitchen wings have no decoration. The roof covered the porch in the south.
Inside, the entrance hall divides the two large spaces with many original finishes, including prints and mantels, original walls and ceiling and floor plaster. The original fireplace and baked oven are still in the kitchen wing.
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Aesthetics
Home decoration is unusual for a Federal-style house in general, not just in the Hudson Valley. The quality is balanced by the overall shape, in strict accordance with the tradition of regional buildings. It reflects the aspirations and tastes of its builders at that time in history.
Wakefield Worcester, who visited the home for the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937, wondered if the builders might become cabinet makers due to the high level of exterior detail. He finds it in stark contrast to the relatively bare interior.
History
Thomas Tabor, the home builder, came to Dover Town as a young man with his father from Rhode Island in 1748, when largely uninhabited by European settlers. His father wanted his land, including all the Dover Plains at this time, after his death in 1782. After building a house around 1810, shortly after the city was founded, he would in turn leave it to his daughter Sally. He is married to Mahlon Wing, one of the leading landowners in the area named Wingdale.
The descendants of the wings will occupy the house for more than 75 years, from 1839 to 1926. Shortly thereafter, modern oil heaters were installed. The house passes through a series of private owners, which increase pipes and heaters as needed. It was obtained in the late 1970s by the Dover Historical Society, which made many improvements to its infrastructure before being employed as a library.
In 2003, the library moved to a larger place and the Historical Institute donated it to the city. It started making improvements to the interior, returning it to its original appearance and appropriate period furnishings. After completing the restoration in 2006, he moved some of his offices in.
References
External links
- American Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) no. NY-4117, "Taber-Wing House, State Route 22, Dover Plains, Dutchess, NY", 9 photos, 18 scalable images, 5 pages of data, additional material
- The city of Dover pages on recovery, with before and after photos
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