The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
MT Kissam's New House.

MT Kissam's New House.
 The new Summer home of D. w. Kis
 sam of Bridgeport, on the site of the old Theophilus Nichols place, will be unlike any other fin town. It is of col
 onial cast of character and is something such a dwelling as our wealthy grand
 fathers might have built. Yet there are many points which show unmistakably the retinning hand of the modern school of architecture. The house, which is from plans by Architect J. w. Northrop of Bridgeport, stands well up on an un- derpinning of red brick, laid in colOred mortar. It is at just the right distance from the Street to give proper effect to it's gables and dormers and will make a neat and pleasant Summer home. Though the house faces the west,a clear CT idea of the style in which it is built be obtained by viewing it from the south. Approached from that direction, the house presents succession of shingled roofs of varying degrees of pitch, with sides covered with plain and cut shingles. The main body of the house rises to a pointed roof, but is constantly broken by dormers and angles, while the l. at the rear stretches backward for more than half the length of the main building. Above the underpinning of brick and red mortar is the veranda, reaching from the front of the house nearly to the rear and provided with entrance steps both front and rear. Along the outer edge of this yeranda runs a balustrade and above it rise turned columns of hard wood, sup porting the roof of the veranda, which is shingled like the rest. Near window which opens upon the veranda roof from chamber in the second story is flower shelf, with capacity for small conserva- roof, the side of the. house is covered with plain shingles, with courses of cut and ornamental shingles as the apex of the roof is neared. The windows are of single sheets below, with small panes for the upper half. From the front or rear, the house presents somewhat more or nate appearance, though the same gener- al characteristics are preserved. The broad covered verande, eight feet wide, extends entirely across the front and is reached by broad and easy steps, somo- what north of the center. Directly in front of the steps is the grand entrance and this is built after the manner of the days of yore, massive double door opening upon wide hall. The door, whose lower part is taken up with one large square panel and whose upper half has two smaller panels, is provided with an old fashioned knocker, such as Tal- madge eulogizes as being far superior to the dangling door bell of these degener- ate days. On either side are narrow windows of Venetian glass, with panels below. Above the roof of the veranda, the line of the front and roof of the house is broken by couple of large dormer windows, where plain and cut shingles are used liberally. The upper halves of these windows are of small panes of Ve- netian glass, aud the trio of small win dows between the two formers are en- tirely of the same. The chimneys are of brick, with projecting tops, over which galvanized wire cloth is built in. The north elevation does not greatly differ from that on the south, save that the | at the rear forms an almost unbroker line of 50 feet. The rear elevation shows simply the multiplicity of roofs, with the shingled first story of the house, the real entrance and the southern entrance to the veranda. The cellar is occupied large ly by the laundry, with furnace and bins for coal. On the first floor are foul large and handsome rooms. The hall ii
 really almost part of the sitting room which is divided from the parlor Cat thu right) by an arched doorway. Back O parlor is the morning room and back O the sitting room the dining room. Al four are provided with fire places and ar' really elegant rooms. From the sitting room, the staircase leads to the floor
 above. From the dining room, door open upon passage leading to the kitch en and the cellar stairs, with another doc
 into the buffers pantry and thence to th
 kitchen. In the second story are fou
 large chambers, corresponding to tn
 four rooms below, with hearths in each All are abundantly provided with close room. On this floor is the bath room an, there is an additional sleeping room il the rear, over the kitchen. The hous
 will be desirable addition to NewtoW
 residences, as well as a source of prid , and pleasure to Mr Nissan. Thoug , built principally as Summer home, will not be entirely closed during tn
 Winter and may be occupied, at times for nearly the entire year. The cost ( : the building approximates s50O0. Soul } & Lines of New Milford have the COT 1. tract for. the wood work and ". H. Shel
 ard of Zoar does the mason work; otht : contracts are not yet let. A. B. Lathro
 is in charge of the carpenters.