page_title: Captain Edward Compton House
section_title: Architectural details
hierarchical_section_title: Captain Edward Compton House / Architectural details
caption_attribution_description: English: Northeast fancy parlor of the Capt. Edward Compton House.
context_page_description: The Captain Edward Compton House is a 2-story, brick-and-frame, High Victorian styled Italianate house. Its format is a side hall plan with a simple hipped roof and two porch entries: a full-width front, east-facing porch and a small north-facing side porch.
  The house is currently home to the Mauricetown Historical Society and is located at the address of 1229 Front Street, Mauricetown, New Jersey. The house is open for tours twice a month.
context_section_description: The walls are finished with South Jersey white cedar shakes. The main building’s roof is composed of rolled asphalt. The roofs of glazed porch and front, east-facing porch are finished with asphalt shingles. The side, north-facing porch is finished with an aluminum standing-seam roof. Wide overhanging cornices of the porches are supported by decorative brackets, while the wide cornice trim of the main building’s roof does not possess bracketing.  Four ionic, eight-sided columns support the full, east-facing porch and two ionic, eight-sided columns support the side, north-facing porch. The interior of the house reflects a side-hall plan with original oak floors and plaster ceiling moldings in the southeast entry room and the northeast fancy parlor.
  The south side of the property contains the foundational remains of the house’s original cookhouse. A reconstructed cookhouse, echoing the house in materials, is set behind the house on the west lawn. The house is made accessible from Front Street by a gravel driveway leading to the side, north porch. The property has experienced significant restoration but still has some original historic fabric.
caption: Northeast fancy parlor of the Capt. Edward Compton House.
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