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Port Richmond, Staten Island

Constructed c.1870, the John De Groot House is one of only three houses in the Second Empire Style that remain standing on Richmond Terrace between Sailors Snug Harbor and Port Richmond, recalling the period when that thoroughfare was lined with grand houses. John De Groot, the builder of this house, worked for over fifty years for the nearby New York Dyeing and Printing Establishment, a textile dyeing business that was the first and one of the most important early industrial concerns on the island.

De Groot was a descendent of a prominent family that had settled on Staten Island around 1730 and intermarried with several of the island's leading families. This house occupies a portion of a tract of land that had been acquired by his grandfather in 1802 and incorporates part of an early vernacular house erected by his father in the 1810s. The front portion of the house, constructed by De Groot c. 1870, comprising a three-story mansarded main block and two-story mansarded dining room wing, is carefully sited to take advantage of the sloping topography.

A fine example of the Second Empire Style, it retains its historic form and most of its historic detailing. Notable features, typical of Second Empire style, include the floor length parlor windows and double-door entry, heavy molded cornices and scrolled brackets, and the convex mansard roof that still retains its hexagonal slate shingles and gabled dormers. Convex mansards were less frequently employed than concave or straight sided mansards, and have not survived in great numbers, making this an unusual survivor.

Description

The John De Groot House is located on a trapezoidal lot that extends about seventy-four feet along Richmond Terrace and about 172 feet along Alaska Street, its eastern boundary. The ground level slopes upward from Richmond Terrace and has been terraced behind a fieldstone retaining wall along the western property line. Non-historic metal post-and-wire fences extend along the northern and eastern property lines. In addition a non-historic wood picket fence extends along the southern property line and eastern edge of the back yard.

The house is set at an angle to Richmond Terrace and is set back from the streets. An early-mid twentieth-century concrete stair leads from the sidewalk along Richmond Terrace to a concrete path leading to the front stoop of the house. This entry is no longer in use. At present the house is accessed from a driveway constructed with historic paving blocks (probably an early twentieth century composite material) in the rear side yard of the property facing Alaska Street.

A non-historic pathway partially lined with sections of fence leads from the driveway to the side yard and then curves around the house to approach the front stoop. The sections of fence lining the path incorporate historic elements salvaged from other sites but most of these do not appear to permanently affixed. There are also dog runs with non-historic fencing and non-affixed dog houses in both the front and rear yards. None of the sculpture in the yard or the porch is permanently affixed.

The house has an irregular plan. It is comprised of a three-story mansarded main block, which is three bays wide and two bays deep, a mansarded two-story plus basement dining room wing, a two-story kitchen-bathroom addition dating from the late 1800s, and an angled ell at the southwest corner of the building that was originally a one-and-a half-story gable-roofed Federal house and was raised to two-stories in the late 1800s.

The exterior of the house was modified c.1915 when it changed hands and from the 1970s to 2005 as the present owner has sought to stabilize and restore lost elements to the exterior.

The house rests on a brick basement and fieldstone foundation walls which are visible on the west side of the house where the ground level declines sharply. All of the basement window openings have been sealed. The house's upper walls are sheathed with-historic wood shingles that conceal original clapboard siding. The windows have molded wood surrounds.

Some windows have historic two-over-two wood sash dating from the 1870s; other windows at the rear of the house retain historic early twentieth-century surrounds and one-over-one wood sash. A number of windows have been replaced with non-historic wood six-over-six wood sash. Most of the windows are protected by non-historic storm windows.

The convex mansard roofs on the main block and the dining room wing retain most of their original hexagonal slate shingles and molded metal flashings (The shingles at the northeast corner of the main block have been replaced with non-historic hexagonal shingles). The gabled dormers retain their segmental arch window surrounds and decorative hoods enriched by small eared brackets. Many of the dormer windows retain their historic two-over-two wood sash but have non-historic one-over-one aluminum storms.

The molded cornices beneath

Livingston, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States

Constructed c.1870, the John De Groot House is one of only three houses in the Second Empire Style that remain standing on Richmond Terrace between Sailors Snug Harbor and Port Richmond, recalling the period when that thoroughfare was lined with grand houses. John De Groot, the builder of this house, worked for over fifty years for the nearby New York Dyeing and Printing Establishment, a textile dyeing business that was the first and one of the most important early industrial concerns on the island.

De Groot was a descendent of a prominent family that had settled on Staten Island around 1730 and intermarried with several of the island's leading families. This house occupies a portion of a tract of land that had been acquired by his grandfather in 1802 and incorporates part of an early vernacular house erected by his father in the 1810s. The front portion of the house, constructed by De Groot c. 1870, comprising a three-story mansarded main block and two-story mansarded dining room wing, is carefully sited to take advantage of the sloping topography.

A fine example of the Second Empire Style, it retains its historic form and most of its historic detailing. Notable features, typical of Second Empire style, include the floor length parlor windows and double-door entry, heavy molded cornices and scrolled brackets, and the convex mansard roof that still retains its hexagonal slate shingles and gabled dormers. Convex mansards were less frequently employed than concave or straight sided mansards, and have not survived in great numbers, making this an unusual survivor.

Description

The John De Groot House is located on a trapezoidal lot that extends about seventy-four feet along Richmond Terrace and about 172 feet along Alaska Street, its eastern boundary. The ground level slopes upward from Richmond Terrace and has been terraced behind a fieldstone retaining wall along the western property line. Non-historic metal post-and-wire fences extend along the northern and eastern property lines. In addition a non-historic wood picket fence extends along the southern property line and eastern edge of the back yard.

The house is set at an angle to Richmond Terrace and is set back from the streets. An early-mid twentieth-century concrete stair leads from the sidewalk along Richmond Terrace to a concrete path leading to the front stoop of the house. This entry is no longer in use. At present the house is accessed from a driveway constructed with historic paving blocks (probably an early twentieth century composite material) in the rear side yard of the property facing Alaska Street.

A non-historic pathway partially lined with sections of fence leads from the driveway to the side yard and then curves around the house to approach the front stoop. The sections of fence lining the path incorporate historic elements salvaged from other sites but most of these do not appear to permanently affixed. There are also dog runs with non-historic fencing and non-affixed dog houses in both the front and rear yards. None of the sculpture in the yard or the porch is permanently affixed.

The house has an irregular plan. It is comprised of a three-story mansarded main block, which is three bays wide and two bays deep, a mansarded two-story plus basement dining room wing, a two-story kitchen-bathroom addition dating from the late 1800s, and an angled ell at the southwest corner of the building that was originally a one-and-a half-story gable-roofed Federal house and was raised to two-stories in the late 1800s.

The exterior of the house was modified c.1915 when it changed hands and from the 1970s to 2005 as the present owner has sought to stabilize and restore lost elements to the exterior.

The house rests on a brick basement and fieldstone foundation walls which are visible on the west side of the house where the ground level declines sharply. All of the basement window openings have been sealed. The house's upper walls are sheathed with-historic wood shingles that conceal original clapboard siding. The windows have molded wood surrounds.

Some windows have historic two-over-two wood sash dating from the 1870s; other windows at the rear of the house retain historic early twentieth-century surrounds and one-over-one wood sash. A number of windows have been replaced with non-historic wood six-over-six wood sash. Most of the windows are protected by non-historic storm windows.

The convex mansard roofs on the main block and the dining room wing retain most of their original hexagonal slate shingles and molded metal flashings (The shingles at the northeast corner of the main block have been replaced with non-historic hexagonal shingles). The gabled dormers retain their segmental arch window surrounds and decorative hoods enriched by small eared brackets. Many of the dormer windows retain their historic two-over-two wood sash but have non-historic one-over-one aluminum s

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