I’d taken pictures of all three of these houses (singly i.e. three separate pictures). I’d always wanted a picture of all three of them in a single image, but every time I passed by the road in front of them was covered with parked cars, which obscured and messed up the view. This time, when I passed and noticed there were no cars, I rushed over to get this picture.

According to the Village of Ossining Significant Sites and Structures Guide (Page 169):

Property Name(s): The Three Sisters
Street Address: 43, 45 and 47 Ellis Place
Section, Block, and Lot: Section 89.20, Block 3, Lots 29, 28 and 27, respectively
Architect/Builder: John O’Brien, Builder
Date of Construction: 1877
Architectural Style: Carpenter Gothic (1840s-early 1900s). Carpenter Gothic architecture, a subtype of the larger Gothic Revival movement, was a style that applied some of the forms typically associated with Gothic Revival architecture to cottage residences. This style was known for its use of board and batten siding, steeply pitched roofs, and elaborate ornamental features known as gingerbread that were made possible by the newly invented scroll saw, which allowed carpenters to cut wooden shapes that had been impossible previously.

The Three Sisters are each two- and one-half stories in height with a raised basement level and have a rectangular, side-hall plan. As originally built, the houses had their kitchens and dining rooms in the basement and a double parlor with side hall on the main floor level. The main façades contain two bays of pedimented one over one sash windows, with a pair of windows on the left side of each story and a single window on the right side of each story. The front porches that extend the full width of the façades contain a gable with a star motif that is repeated on the front-facing gable of each structure, each of which utilizes board and batten siding and contains a pair of small attic windows. All three structures contain asphalt shingle roofs with two side dormers and clapboard siding on all facings.

The Three Sisters are architecturally significant as examples of late 19th-Century Carpenter Gothic-style houses.

The Three Sisters, located at 43, 45, and 47 Ellis Place respectively, were built by John O’Brien, a local entrepreneur who owned and operated a stone and monument factory on Water Street. O’Brien built the houses from 1875-1877 for his three daughters: Birdie, Margaret, and Edith. All three houses have had a series of private owners since their construction and each is painted a different color: Number 43 is painted pink, Number 45 is blue, and Number 47 is gray.

Taken with a Sony RX100 MVII.