Location: 4577 Carpenter Avenue, Block: 5075 Lot:58
Status: Never landmarked or heard by the NYCLPC, demolished in September, 2005. Current structure was built in 2007.
Description from the Bronx Survey:
Number 4577 Carpenter Avenue is a two and one-half story frame structure clad with imbricated shingles and clapboard and decorated with jigsawn details. The plan is a central block with abutting rear wing, angled side bay, and wooden porch, which extends from the front facade and wraps around the north side of the building. The front porch is composed of jigsawn elements: turned wooden posts support the porch roof; pierced wooden brackets flank the posts; attenuated brackets which start at the cornice level extend to the capitals of the porch posts; and pierced quatrefoils alternate with paired circular perforations within the porch frieze .
Additional pierced jigsawn work is placed within the deeply recessed roof eaves in a design that consists of paired square wooden panels with perforations topped by a semi-circular sunburst and flanked by quarter sections of the sunburst motif. The roof crest is copped by a wooden finial. No formal record of the architect and date of this building exists; however, the plan, materials, and the individual jigsawn elements would place this house stylistically in the late 1870’s or early 1880’s. The use of gouged wooden ornament is often referred to as Eastlake style.
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