With its steeply pitched and pinnacled gable roof, elaborate bargeboards, oriel window, tracery, and delicate Tudor-arched veranda, the Prouty house is a rural interpretation of Gothic Revival. The cottage was originally set well back from the road and surrounded by foliage, consistent with advice in the writings of Andrew Jackson Downing.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Amariah T. Prouty House, “Arcadia”", [Kalamazoo, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-KZ17.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 218-218.
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