 The Victorian house has a polychromatic exterior
finish combined with the semi-circular arch highlight the Victorian Romansque style. The
round arches usually are supported by short polished stone columns. Windows vary in size
and shape. Polychromatic is different contrasting colors. Polychromatic voussoirs are many
colored stones used to form an arch or rib on a vault in a wedge shape.  A tower with a conical roof is a cone shaped roof. The roof also has a
projecting gable pavillion that stood out and was pointy. A semi-circular arched opening
is an arched door or a window. The transomed windows and doors are divided by a transom.
The supporting pillars were made of polished stone columns. This style came from American public commercial buildings. The period of this style in Schoharie County was 1870-1890.  During the 1870's, Henry Hobson evolved his
strongly personal style, which incorporated Romanesque forms and which like its
mid-century predecessor, was applied principally to large public buildings. He
incorporated the polychromed walls seen in the contemporary late Gothic Revival. The
reason they chose this kind of architecture is because of the style and the details of it.
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