The Dunning House is located on Ridgebury Road in the Town of Wawayanda,

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. It is a wooden house first built in the mid-18th century and extensively renovated several times in the 19th. As a result, it embodies a number of different

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s. A modest two-room

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house first built around 1750, a then-common design with a few extant examples in the region, it was later expanded in the early 19th century in a

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center-hall plan. The hallway still features a segmented Federal archway with its keystone supported by a pair of reeded

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s. The hand-hewn beams, doors, trim and wall finishes are also original to that period and style. Later renovations added interior rooms with

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features such as

architrave In classical architecture, an architrave (; from it, architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον ''epistylon'' "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of columns. The term can ...

s, moldings,

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and medallions. In the Victorian era, a Stick style

porch A porch (from Old French ''porche'', from Latin ''porticus'' "colonnade", from ''porta'' "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and form ...

with

chamfer A chamfer or is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces. Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, fu ...

ed posts and an intricate cornice molding was built on the front and an

oriel window An oriel window is a form of bay window which protrudes from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, bracket (architecture), brackets, or similar cantilevers, an oriel window is most commonly found pro ...

on the southwest side. Late in the 19th century, a central front

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

was added with an arch top window. The renovations and additions over the course of the 19th century have produced a modern house of two and a half stories with five

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. It is located on a 1.1-acre (4,400 m²) parcel, overlooking the Slate Hill area, with one other building, a modern

greenhouse A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of Transparent ceramics, transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic condit ...

not considered a

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. In 2001, it was added to the

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due to its relatively intact preservation of its stylistically different architectural features. It is currently up for sale, with an asking price of $800,000.

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