Brown-Wing House

The main block measures 34 feet by 44 feet and a north wing is. 30 hall running the width of the house, approximately10 feet by 32 feet. sliding doors, but the partition has been removed and the area thrown entrance was originally closed, with a plastered wall on the interior by the present owner. kitchen and a small kitchen, both with large hearth fireplaces, back- and part of it has been adapted as a garage. CONDITION Fair the main house. The windows have their original louvered shutters. porch on the east side adjacent to the main house.

cupboards and a sink.The northernmost wing is unfinished inside, into one long room.All four areas have fireplaces which project into The second floor has essentially the same arrangement of four cham- The interior architectural trim is all from the same or related a Greek Revival entablature which forms a pediment at each end.The The most striking feature of the interior plan is a great central the room.In the southeast bed chamber the window next to the of architectural merit are the mantelpieces, also Benjaminesque." Benjamin patterns as the exterior doorway.The other chief details and false closed shutters on the exterior.The window has been opened door is flanked by side lights.The surrounding trim consists of fluted i.e.,a large center window with side lights.

The entire house has to-back.Between the kitchens and beside the fireplaces are two which appears.to be.a little later than the main house. The main entrance is in the center of the long side, and the The stair is enclosed between the hall and the rear bed chamber, and feet by.32 feet.To the north of that is another wing or utility shed Itis more remarkable because it is completely open with no stairwell.

cendants until 1927. A site plan drawn by Ephraim Brown, plans for each of the two floors of the house, the builders' contract, bills and many Brown's brother-in-law to build in brick, which was ignored. For 1837-1838 Conservation Architecture losophy Commerce Communications SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Science Aboriginal Religion/Phi Transportation Theater Landscape Music Agriculture conspicuous setting but is actually simpler in architectural treatment Sculpture Social/Human- large central hall. itarian manuscripts, correspondence and plans. Education Historical Society archives.

They include a forceful suggestion from Finally, the house is an excellent architectural example of the The Brown-Wing House is significant because it is associated Ephraim Brown moved from New Hampshire to the Western ural plan, and because it is unusually well documented by primary with the early proprietor of the township, because of the architect- then took possession of the place, and it was occupied by.her des- letters pertaining to the house survive in The Western Reserve because of the financial depression of 1837,it proved impossible some reason, perhaps the view, the ground floor plan on either than Brownwood. The house was completed in 1838.

However, Industry Political North Bloomfield center and is reached bya secondary lane rather period in its own right, and especially notable because of the Invention Brown's New House' stands on the diagonally opposite quarter of unknown in the area at that time (National Register).In 1837 he than a formal approach from the State Road.It still has a more to Joseph K Wing in 1842 and the death of her father in 1845.She Reserve in 18l5 and founded the town of North Bloomfield.In 1820 Other (Specify) he built Brownwood, a late Adam house of an elegance "all but contracted for a new house, intending to sell Brownwood.