226 Park Ave - Adam Cole Home

Adam Cole bought this lot for $600 in 1888, and he sold it in 1896 for $3000, so the vernacular house had been built by that time. The house was not there in The house has Queen Anne elements such as a steeply pitched roof and arched second story windows. The 1905 insurance plat shows a porch located only on the east side of the house’s projecting pavilion. That porch was probably highly decorated and of delicate proportions. By 1916, another porch extended around the corner, along the front of the house. Today the porch has slim Tuscan order columns and a plain cornice, giving the house a Greek Revival flavor.