The Aaron Swartz Home
The Aaron Swartz Home Receives Local Landmark Plaque - July 15, 2011
Aaron Swartz purchased 23.84 acres from his father-in-law Henry Heiss in 1867. Aaron and Sophia Swartz built the property in 1882.
The home is a brick, high style, Italianate Victorian Farmhouse. The home features a symmetrical façade with a central gabled projecting wing with a 2-story bay window. Several examples of Victorian Cross-Gable Farmhouses were built in Green Township. However, the home is the only remaining brick Victorian Cross-Gable Farmhouse.
The home includes evenly spaced carved cornice brackets around the entire perimeter of the cross gabled roof . Decorative corbelled brick surrounds the cornice. The home has a two-story angled bay window complete with carved cornice brackets. A pair of Victorian porches with ornate turned posts and balusters flank either side of the bay window. Each porch has a respective entry with a 2-panel door and transom. The segmental-arched windows of the first and second story are each are topped with triangular hoodmolds with keystone and end blocks with a sunflower design.
The gable ends of the home have 2 bays and a small attic window in the gable face. Small porches at rear doors connect a small brick 1-story wind at the NW corner and a modern 1-story gabled brick addition at the SW corner.
The property also includes a Standard Forebay barn with gabled roof, vertical siding, banked door on the West, and a shallow overhand on the East. Window openings are louvered. Decorative Gothic arch designs are present in the gable end louvers.
The exterior of the home is in excellent condition with only minor modification to the original structure and details. A single-story modern gabled brick addition at the SW corner of the home.
Much of the original stone barn foundation has been replaced with concrete block.
The home is a brick, high style, Italianate Victorian Farmhouse. The home features a symmetrical façade with a central gabled projecting wing with a 2-story bay window. Several examples of Victorian Cross-Gable Farmhouses were built in Green Township. However, the home is the only remaining brick Victorian Cross-Gable Farmhouse.
The home includes evenly spaced carved cornice brackets around the entire perimeter of the cross gabled roof . Decorative corbelled brick surrounds the cornice. The home has a two-story angled bay window complete with carved cornice brackets. A pair of Victorian porches with ornate turned posts and balusters flank either side of the bay window. Each porch has a respective entry with a 2-panel door and transom. The segmental-arched windows of the first and second story are each are topped with triangular hoodmolds with keystone and end blocks with a sunflower design.
The gable ends of the home have 2 bays and a small attic window in the gable face. Small porches at rear doors connect a small brick 1-story wind at the NW corner and a modern 1-story gabled brick addition at the SW corner.
The property also includes a Standard Forebay barn with gabled roof, vertical siding, banked door on the West, and a shallow overhand on the East. Window openings are louvered. Decorative Gothic arch designs are present in the gable end louvers.
The exterior of the home is in excellent condition with only minor modification to the original structure and details. A single-story modern gabled brick addition at the SW corner of the home.
Much of the original stone barn foundation has been replaced with concrete block.