12 Overcliff Street

Falconhurst, Francis B. Chedsey House; two-and-one half story, multiple bay, Shingle Style residence; rectangular plan; high coursed stone foundation; full-width entrance porch with cross-gable supported on columns; six-over-one double hung sash windows; numerous porches; corner tower with decorative frieze; bay and oriel windows; cross-gambreled roofs with returns and exposed rafters.

"Falconhurst,” 2 1/2-story and basement rectilinear house; rubblestone base; shingle above; complex massing; porch with rubblestone end posts and paired bulbous colonettes on rubblestone bases; central entrance with windows to right; gable on porch with diamond-cut shingles; round tower at corner with ornate frieze; rounded corner to south; oriels; varied roof slopes; bracketed cornice; diamond-cut shingles at top of main gable.

This is a 2 1/2 story Shingle Style house with a rounded hip roof and multiple cross gables with hipped roofs. There are numerous porches and a side tower with a conical roof.

Alterations: Aluminum siding; detail stripped

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies this as the Francis B. Chedsey residence (1892), one of the original fourteen houses built in the initial Park Hill subdivision.

The illustrated view shows Falconhurst, a large multi-story house with a corner tower, expansive porch, stone foundation, and trees.