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Col. Charles Codman Estate

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Built
  
1870 (1870)

NRHP Reference #
  
87000321

Opened
  
1870

Added to NRHP
  
13 March 1987

MPS
  
Barnstable MRA

Designated CP
  
November 10, 1987

Area
  
1 ha

Col. Charles Codman Estate

Location
  
Bluff Point Dr., Barnstable, Massachusetts

Part of
  
Cotuit Historic District (#87000317)

Architectural styles
  
Queen Anne style architecture, Shingle style architecture

Similar
  
Cahoon Museum of American, Craigville Beach - Barnstable, Follins Pond, Wianno Club, John F Kennedy Hyannis

The Col. Charles Codman Estate is a historic house on Bluff Point Drive in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built in 1870, the house is a well-preserved example of a summer seaside resort house in Queen Anne/Shingle style. It was designed by Boston architect John Sturgis, and modified in the early 20th century, adding some Colonial Revival elements. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1987, and it was included in the Cotuit Historic District in November 1987.

Description and history

The Codman House is set near the end of Bluff Point Drive, a semi-private spur road off Ocean View Drive just south of its junction with Main Street in Cotuit. It is set on the south side of the road, shortly before the circle at the end of the road. It is a large L-shaped 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with hipped and gabled roof, and shingle siding. The short leg of the L projects forward from the right side of the north-facing main facade, and the entrance is near the crook of the L on the long side, which is five bays wide. The two left first-floor bays project, covered by a metal hip roof. Gable-roof dormers pierce the roof on several elevations, some of which have been joined to enlarge the interior space. A single-story porch wraps around the eastern and southern sides, with a bowed projection.

The house was built in 1870 by Colonel Charles Codman, an American Civil War veteran who had been summering in the area for twenty years prior to purchasing the property. Designed by Boston architect John Sturgis, the house originally had Queen Anne styling that included bands of decoratively cut shingles and jerkin-headed dormers with bargeboard trim. A later owner removed these features and added others, including the dormer extensions, giving the house a more Colonial Revival feeling.

References

Col. Charles Codman Estate Wikipedia