Description

This house is one of several built by architect John Holden Greene to employ a monitor roof design in which the central section of the roof is raised to allow a row of small attic windows on all four sides. The house is two stories and consists of a central hall and end chimneys that make an L-shape with the carriage house and provides for a more substantial front garden then most of the current area houses. The house has a front entrance porch with ionic columns and an elliptical window above. Inside the main entrance, there is a staircase that rises up to the second floor and offers glimpses through the scrolled, wooden rails to the hallway above. The first floor has tall windows that step back into the walls and are framed by thin wooden shutters. The walls in the living room are covered with scenic print wallpaper by Joseph Dufour from the mid 19th century. This wallpaper was put into the Beckwith house in the 1960s after it was removed from the Carrington House at 66 Power Street. There also still remains the original brick fireplace Beckwith used in his kitchen.