Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill is a historic home and mill located at Bainbridge

Bainbridge (village), New York

Bainbridge is a village in Chenango County, New York, USA. The population was 1,365 at the 2000 census.The Village of Bainbridge is near the center of the Town of Bainbridge and lies between Binghamton and Oneonta.- History :...

 in Chenango County, New York

Chenango County, New York

Chenango County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 50,477. The county's name originates from an Oneida word meaning "large bull-thistle." Its county seat is Norwich.-History:...

. The house is a -story Queen Anne style residence constructed in 1889. It and the adjacent carriage house

Carriage house

A carriage house, also called remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack.In Great Britain the farm building was called a Cart Shed...

 were included as part of the Bainbridge Historic District

Bainbridge Historic District

Bainbridge Historic District is a national historic district located at Bainbridge in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 93 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and one contributing object. It encompasses the village's most intensive...

. The mill building is a long -story, 5000 square feet (464.5 m²) structure built between 1897 and 1903 to house the Strong Leather Company, a manufacturer of patent leather

Patent leather

Patent leather is a type of japanned leather that has been given a high gloss, shiny finish. The process was brought to the United States and improved by Newark-based inventor Seth Boyden in 1818, with commercial manufacture beginning September 20, 1819. Boyden's process, which he never patented,...

. The roof is defined by its unusual parabolic arch

Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side...

, formed by a series of 60 rounded bows joined to the rafters.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1996.