Frank Sanford House, 71 Lovely Street

c.1884. Eastlake (British)/Stick Victorian (American) style. The details on this house include relief cut outs, patterned, and carved design elements on the building’s exterior trim, posts, and balustrades.The lattice and stickwork are characteristic features of the Stick style. A most notable feature is the multicolored, ornamental, and functional bargeboard stickwork in the front upper gabled façade.

Although known for his lumber and building business, Frank Sanford was born to a farming family in Avon. Frank Sanford joined his uncle Sherman Sanford's lumber business. He married Marion Hawley, whose father was killed in the Civil War battle of Antietam. Frank and Sherman formed a partnership of Sherman and Frank Sanford. After Sherman's death, Frank and his brother-in-law formed Sanford and Hawley on Farmington Ave, in the former J. F. Hamilton hook and eye factory.