File:Former Hart House Hotel, R. H. Newell & Co. - Medina, New York - 20210515.jpg

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English: As seen in May 2021: the three-story, five-bay-wide, red brick building at 111-115 West Center Street in Medina, New York's Main Street Historic District is about as fine an example of High Victorian Italianate commercial architecture as you'll find anywhere in America. Built about 1876 by Jacob Gorton, the most eye-catching features on this exquisite façade are the Renaissance-inspired keystone-studded crowns over the segmental-arched windows, whose light-colored gray Medina sandstone makes for a striking color contrast vis-à-vis the rest of the exterior. These window crowns feature horizontal projections at their base which, together with the similarly fashioned sandstone windowsills, make for ersatz string courses that span more-or-less the entirety of the façade. Almost as impressive is the prominent wooden cornice at the roofline, undergirded by ornate carved scroll brackets and an impressive row of corbelling. The segmental-arched main entrance is framed by a wide transom and sidelights, which, according to historic photographs, were in turn once framed by a porch topped with a wooden balustrade. The building's two longest-tenured occupants were the Hart House, operated by E. Kirk Hart between 1880 and 1919 as one of four hotels in the village, and Robert H. Newell & Co., a manufacturer of high-end custom-fitted men's shirts and other accessories that did business here from 1919 until 2004. It was purchased from Newell in 2005 by Andrew Meier and is now a mixed-use facility housing a cafe, meadery, law office, and a revived, boutique version of the Hart House Hotel.
Date Taken on 15 May 2021, 13:13:53
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Author Andre Carrotflower
Camera location43° 13′ 13.42″ N, 78° 23′ 16.2″ W  Heading=153.91885766092° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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