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John B. Irick House, 1865 |
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The John B. Irick House is one of the town's strongest individual architectural works with well designed, executed, and preserved carpenter detailing. Built by one of the influential citizens of the town in 1865, it reflects a combination of the local vernacular building forms with the contemporary carpenter gothic style. The use of Italianate window types, which have gently curving arches rather than the sharp lancet arch, soften the angular gothic style. J.B. Irick operated a cabinet shop on Mill Street and assumed operation from his father, Gen. John S. Irick, of the Race Street sawmill and Main Street lumberyard. The house has been passed down through generations and remains in the Irick family today. |
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