“Douglas Historic District – Images”
City Directories and History: 1954 / 1984 – Thomas L. Estes
It appears that this home was constructed and exhibited as item “C” on the Sanborn Insurance Company surveyed the street in 1917. This is known as the Captain James T. Douglass home. It was constructed prior to 1860 and has undergone many architectural changes including being moved from Main Street to the current lot, allowing for access to develop Douglass Heights. The home originally also was two tiered with turned posts and decorative eve brackets.
Union Museum Director, Old Jean Kelly stated in Feb. 1017 – “A side note about Mrs. Giles: after her husband was killed in the Civil War she married his best friend, Capt. James Douglass. Capt. Douglass built her a magnificent home in the city of Union on what is now Douglass Heights. At the time of construction that passage was their driveway. The house still stands and is in great condition.” (See Giles link this page.)
A wonderful Italianate Style home. The Italianate style was modeled after the medieval farmhouses of the Italian countryside. These farmhouses were irregularly shaped and seemed to fit naturally into their rustic settings, an important objective of the Romantic Movement. The Italianate and Gothic Revival styles were made popular by the published pattern books of architect Andrew Jackson Downing in the 1840s and 1850s. This style first developed as the Italianate Villa style, which was seen as early as the 1830s and was intended as a suitable design for substantial homes or country estates. The most outstanding feature of the Italianate Villa style is the square tower, topped with a bracketed cornice. Courtesy of the Penn Arch. Field Guide – Website
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