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Moravian College • Preservation Master Plan 1768 to the present, making highly significant as a direct connection to Bethlehem’s original status as an exclusively Moravian settlement. Integrity Figure 8-140. Widows’ House, view to southeast (JMA 2008). The exteriors of both the eighteenth-century section and the 1889 annex addition retain a very high degree of historical integrity, with relatively little change seen overall since the late nineteenth century. The appearance of the building is similar to that in historic photographs. Figure 8-141. Widows’ House, pre-1889 photo showing old gabled porch (Moravian Church Archives). Figure 8-144. Photomontage ca. 1900 showing interior and exterior details of Widows’ House (Moravian Church Archives). Figure 8-142. Widows’ House, post-1889 photo showing current porch and annex (Moravian Church Archives). Figure 8-143. Floor plan of Widows’ House, post-1795 (Moravian Church Archives). Figure 8-145. Photomontage ca. 1900 showing interior details of Widows’ House (Moravian Church Archives). John Milner Associates • October 2009 • Chapter 8 • Historic Buildings • 218
Moravian College • Preservation Master Plan The interior of the Widows’ House has reportedly been changed considerably to accommodate modern living standards. Due to continued residential occupancy, the interior was not examined in this study. Condition Summary The Widows’ House is a two-and-one-half-story oblong stone building with a side-gabled slate roof. It faces north toward Church Street and its basement level is exposed at the back. It was built in three stages, all of which are clearly visible. The 1768 main block is nine bays wide and three bays deep. A second section was added to the east end of the first in 1795. This has the same side profile, with less refined stonework, and is two bays wide and thee bays deep. The steep-pitched roof over both sections has slightly flared eaves and conceals a double-level attic with dormers on both floors. At the rear of the house near the east end is a one-story gabled addition at ground level, with two doors. A hyphen and rear annex were added on the south in 1889. Both are two-and-one-half-stories tall plus an exposed basement level. The hyphen is a narrow southward extension with three-story full-width porches on both east and west. It connects at the south to the much larger annex. The shared gabled slate roof runs perpendicular to the main block, and the walls are constructed of random local stone with red brick detailing. The annex is nine bays long and five bays wide, and its primary façade faces west. Queen Anne details include a corbelled red-brick cornice, an elaborate gabled center dormer with an arched tripartite window, slate-sided shed dormers with paired windows, and curved brackets on the porches. The center entrance bay has a split-level stairwell with the entrance at grade. The south end of the annex has a full-width three-story porch identical in style to those on the hyphen. and a projecting two-story water closet addition as a predecessor of the present hyphen. A historic photomontage indicates that this was the “entrance to the old kitchen.” A stone hyphen and large annex were added at the rear (south) of the main building in 1889. Both the annex and the hyphen are stone with some Queen Anne detailing. Figure 8-146. Widows’ House, 1889 annex, view to southeast (JMA 2008). Figure 8-147. Widows’ House, 1889 annex, west façade view to southwest (JMA 2008). Additions The main house was extended 20’ eastward in 1795 with a full-height addition. Different stonework and mortar joints, along with a vertical demarcation line in the front façade, indicate the juncture. A small gabled addition with two single doors was added at grade on the south side of the building in more recent times. The 1885 Sanborn map shows a one-story addition at this same location, Figure 8-148. Widows’ House, 1889 annex west-facing hyphen, view to east (JMA 2008). John Milner Associates • October 2009 • Chapter 8 • Historic Buildings • 219
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