Address: 30 Isleib Road
Contemporary Building Name: 30 Isleib Road
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1924 (owner), 1923 (assessor)
Description: The unconventional setting of the house is set off by the drive into the property which runs diagonally to the northeast from the corner of Isleib Street. The overall appearance is one of the starkness and age, dramatized by an area of the wall where the asbestos siding is missing to reveal the original clapboards, perhaps where a front porch once joined the front wall. The front elevation is divided into four asymmetrical bays in a 1-2-1 rhythm. The door is in the west central location. Windows on the front are 4-over-2. The vertical panes of the upper sash are glazed in an elongated diamond pattern with small diamonds at the top. Other windows are 2-over-2. Fenestration on the west side elevation is two windows at first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic.
Significance: A house at about this location is identified on the 1869 atlas with the name O. Dickinson, but the owner and assessor agree that this building was constructed c. 1923. It is significant architecturally because of the fact the front elevation has four bays, not evenly spaced. See 55, 93, and 141 Chapman Street fro four-bay Colonial houses, but this house is with similar fenestration pattern is Colonial Revival. The window-glazing patterns of 2-over-2 and diamond panes reflect 19th century influence which carried over into the first quarter of the 20th century. The diamond glazing is one of the few examples of Queen Anne-style detail in Marlborough. The owner states that the house was built out of old lumber for staff housing on a large grape orchard property.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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