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Captain Walter Thorp House, 198 Oxford Rd, Southport, Fairfield County, CT
Captain Thorp`s house is a representative example of Southport`s local vernacular during the 1820s and 30s. Unlike some of the village`s residences erected in the early nineteenth century, this building was designed on a relatively modest scale with attenuated classical details. The rectangular mass`s distinctive characteristics are the one-story portico supported by fluted Greek Doric columns with a simplified entablature, an oval window filled with radiating mullions piercing the front gable pediment, and a delicately proportioned architrave and cornice over the principal windows.
Captain Walter Thorp House, 198 Oxford Rd, Southport, Fairfield County, CT
Captain Thorp`s house is a representative example of Southport`s local vernacular during the 1820s and 30s. Unlike some of the village`s residences erected in the early nineteenth century, this building was designed on a relatively modest scale with attenuated classical details. The rectangular mass`s distinctive characteristics are the one-story portico supported by fluted Greek Doric columns with a simplified entablature, an oval window filled with radiating mullions piercing the front gable pediment, and a delicately proportioned architrave and cornice over the principal windows.
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
