18 Tavano Road (Robinwood Historic District)

The Robinwood Historic District consists of 21 mid-century Modern houses erected as the centerpiece of a unified housing development in the mid-1960s in the Town of Ossining, Westchester County, New York. Included in the district is the home at 18 Tavano Road. The houses which form this cohesive mid-twentieth century housing enclave were designed by architect Harry Wenning, a New Jersey native who was educated at the College of William & Mary and subsequently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in architecture in 1952. 

The Robinwood Historic District, including 18 Tavano Road, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

The house is a wood frame single-story building with hipped roof, built on a square plan and banked into it site, which slopes downwards to allow for at-grade access to a one -bay garage at basement level. It features a single central recessed bay where the principal entrance is situated. The house is covered by a broad hipped roof with projecting eaves which rise to a central monitor which accommodates a top-mounted skylight. There is an additional more conventional skylight located on the east pitch of the roof. There is a cantilevered porch on the rear elevation and continues on the east and south sides. It has a concrete block foundation and vertical board wood siding.

1. “Robinwood Historic District #100003632.” National Register of Historic Places. United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service.
2. The Hastings News, "Wenning's Architectural Range: The Simplex, Duplex, or Complex," 7 April 1966.
3. Panetta, Roger, Westchester the American Suburb, New York, Fordham Press, 2006.