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English: The George F. Shipp House, 60 Cayuga Street at Prospect Street, Seneca Falls, New York, September 2022. In Upstate New York, the Gothic Revival style is largely reserved for church architecture, while its uses in homes is comparatively rare. Accordingly, the circa-1865 Shipp House is one of only a few extant Gothic houses in Seneca Falls, and the only one built of brick. The style is most artfully exemplified on the unique triple-gable façade, slender and steeply pitched and boasting intricate woodwork on the bargeboards that presages the soon-to-be-popular design aesthetic of Charles Eastlake. George Francis Shipp (1825-1884), the house's original owner, was a junior partner in the hardware retailing firm of Norcott, Pontius & Shipp, but was otherwise independently wealthy as scion of one of Seneca Falls' most prestigious families, the Van Cleefs. He and his wife Roxanna lived there until 1880, when they moved into an apartment in the Crane Block. In more recent years, the Shipp House has served variously as dental offices, an art gallery, and a bed-and-breakfast inn.