49 South Holcomb Road

This is one of the few Gothic Revival (Carpenter Gothic) style houses in the Village. A small cube is shown on the property on the 1872 Map of the Village. The owner then was Oscar Bump. Tax records listed Bump for the property beginning 1867. The assessed value more than doubled from 1875 to 1880 when Arvilla Petty was the owner. The Gothic Revival style house was probably built for her. The porch on the house now has simple round Classical Revival style (Doric) columns which rest on a banister with clapboard below. Clapboard was typically used below the porch railings of bungalow style houses built in the 1920s. The house to the north also had a bungalow style porch. Both porches were likely built to replace badly deteriorated originals, and/or the modernize the structure about 1920. The steeply pitched gable roofs with pierced detail in the peaks and slender windows are of the Gothic style.