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Show 7. Description Condition excellent _X good fair deteriorated ruins unexposed Check one unaltered X altered Check one X original site moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance The Wood-Ham*son house was constructed in two distinct sizes. The original section, built in 1853 by Lyman S. Wood, was a 24' x 14 1 rectangular cabin vernacular type house. It was built of locally produced adobe bricks and was one story high. The three-bay facade was probably originally symmetrical, with the door being placed in the center between two outside windows. The door could have been moved to the side when the extensive remodeling occurred in 1877. In 1877 George Harrison added a two-room wide, one-room deep, and two-stories high I-house type addition to the west end of the Wood dwelling. This adobe section had two unequal size rooms on each floor arranged behind a symmetrical three-bay facade. There were brick stove chimneys on each end of the gabled roof. Stylistic trim was limited to the eaves and openings and consisted of bracketed, pedimented window and door heads, a plain entablature, and returns on the gable ends. Additionally, there is scroll-cut filagree applied to the pediments above the openings. Such decorative elements are carried over on the original house and probably were added at the time of the remodeling. The house has a general feeling of verticality, an appearance created by the narrow two-room floorplan and emphasized by the long narrow openings. Further alterations to the house include a frame shed addition to the rear, c. 1940, and the 1980 plastering of the deteriorating adobe. These alterations do not detract from the Wood-Harrison house's historic importance or integrity |
