Jacob and Daniel Barringer Houses
This pair of attached townhouses (107 and 109 Front Street), designed in the Second Empire style and constructed in c.1870, are similar to many side-by-side townhouses which were built as mirror images of each other. However, the Barringer houses were designed with entries at the east side of the house, permitting a certain amount of privacy at the entry for the occupants of each house.
The façades are constructed of brick laid in an American common bond pattern. Ornamental wood lintels are present above window openings, and the paired paneled entry doors with ornamental painted wood entablature are surmounted by a projecting bay window at the second floor over each entrance. Windows are two-light over two-light double-hung painted wood window sash. The front façade is capped by a bracketed and paneled painted wood cornice with slate shingle roofing on the sloped mansard roof surface. Two diamond patterns within the slate shingle roofing can be seen at each side of the pair of dormer windows in the sloped roof surface. Cast-iron railings are at each side of the entry porches, and No. 109 retains a cast-ion railing along the sidewalk edge of the basement area.