Travis House
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Travis House is a historic home located at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York
. It was built about 1848 and is a -story, three-bay-wide, Greek Revival
–style dwelling. It sits on a raised basement and has three eyebrow windows under the molded cornice
.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488...
. It was built about 1848 and is a -story, three-bay-wide, Greek Revival
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...
–style dwelling. It sits on a raised basement and has three eyebrow windows under the molded cornice
Cornice
Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting...
.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1982.