This house also uses contrasting stone widow lintels and walls as a decorative device. The massing of the house suggests form, symmetrical (and therefore, Classical) influence, but the porch retains a fanciful, lacy design suggesting folk Victorian spindlework. The railroads provided local lumber yards with pre-cut detailing from distant mills, and James H. Ward, as the builder, simply grafted these porch columns on to his elegant stone houses.