McClary House
Main and McClary Sts., Leipsic, DEThe McClary House is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C because of its representation of a conservative vernacular frame tradition that was once very common to the region. This particular structure is neither the most stylish nor the most humble but rather represents a middle ground of architectural competence. The McClary House was built in the mid-nineteenth century as the residence for a family of watermen. In erecting the dwelling a number of traditional features were employed. Most of the building is mortise and tenon construction and the plan of the house is based on a hall-parlor form with the central door opening directly into the parlor. The facade however displays the balanced facade common to much of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century structures with a central door flanked by window openings. The roof cornice has a partial return more common to Georgian and Federal building styles than to the nineteenth century.
Furthermore, the house documents the shift in Leipsic's economic base from larger agrarian, commercial and shipbuilding concerns to an extra-local market-based in securing "wild" produce for the urban markets of Philadelphia and New York,
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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