James Cannings Fuller Home - Skaneateles, NY
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N 42° 56.678 W 076° 26.351
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"James Canning Fuller was the secretary of the Skaneateles Anti-Slavery Society in 1838. He was a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 in London" ~ Wikipedia
Waymark Code: WM18BZH
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2023
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County of site: Onondaga County
Location of site: 98 West Genesee St., Skaneateles
"The James C. and Lydia C. Fuller House is a remarkable example of a very well-preserved Federal-style structure. It stands west of the main downtown section of the Village of Skaneateles on Lot 13 in Block19, on the north side of West Genesee Street, just opposite Lakeview Cemetery and east of Fuller Street. It is a five-bay house with a central doorway surrounded by sidelights and a fanlight. Delicate tracery imitates ovals, urns, and (in the center of the fanlight) lines of longitude A portico with attenuated Tuscan columns fronts the doorway. A balustrade, unusual for this area, sits on top of the portico. Its vertical supports consist visually of three parts, gathered in the middle, perhaps imitating sheaves of grain, while urn-like turned decorations topping three posts (two at the corners and one in the middle).
"On the west side, two quarter round windows are in the gable. On the east side, a two-story portico includes three slender columns with modified Ionic capitals and square bases, topped by a full pediment with a half-round window. From the east, the rear wing stretches north and retains what was probably its original five-bay façade. A porch was probably added in the twentieth century. Brick chimneys are at either end of the main structure. Windows are double sash with six-over-six panes. On the east, glass doors with three panes each open onto the portico. Foundations throughout are Onondaga limestone in a random ashlar pattern, punctuated with grills. The house is covered with 5-inch wooden clapboards.
"Inside, floor boards are 6-inch to 8-inch white pine. Although the interior and part of the exterior back wing experienced significant changes in the 1870s or 1880s, much of the paneled woodwork, including doors, window panels in the front parlors, and woodwork in the hall and stairs, still remains inside. Foundations of a barn are visible in the back yard. The garage is under the house." ~ Preservation Association of New York