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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This cottage retains its original finishes. Features include roof with <br /> patterned slates and dormer windows with broadly projecting roofs; bay window; <br /> paired brackets at the eaves; and a porch with turned posts. The design of <br /> this house is identical with that of the Mansard cottages on Hancock Avenue, <br /> except that this one has a porch rather than a door hood. It is, like the <br /> others, a simplified version of Mansard cottage depicted in A.J. Bicknell's <br /> Bicknell's Village Builder of 1872. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> Bike most of the other Tansard cottages along this section of Forest <br /> Street, this house appears to have been built as a rental property: the owner <br /> from the tire of its construction until the turn of the century was George H. <br /> Jackson, one of the largest property owners in this section of town. In 1906 <br /> the house was owned by Charles T. West, the undertaker who owned the house <br /> next door (see 5 Forest Street form) , so perhaps it continued to be rented. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Bicknell, A.J. Bicknell's Village Builder. New York: A.J. Bicknell and <br /> Company, 1872. <br /> 1876 map <br /> 1889 map <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1906 map <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />