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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Gillespie House
Gillespie House viewed from the northwest (August
2025).
Photo of Gillespie House in the 1982 NRHP nomination document
(marked August 1980)
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1. Gillespie House viewed from north across Route
20 2.
view of outbuilding
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Gillespie House entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 15; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 27.
Situated close to the heavily travelled Western Turnpike (U.S. Route
20).
Features: Small one and one-half story farmhouse; Greek
Revival design; center entrance with pilastered door surround; five
small eye-brow windows in frieze; small ell on rear.
Date of initial construction: ca. 1840
Historical and Architectural importance: This small Greek
Revival farmhouse is a significant example of the modest rural homes
built in the town in the mid-nineteenth century. The house retains
its original integrity with modest detailing and is highly visible
from the road. The building is situated in a community pressured by
suburban development. Relative to the contemporary tract-type
development in the surrounding area this Greek Revival structure,
although small and modest in design, stands out as architecturally
and historically significant.
Gillespie
House NRHP nomination document (10MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#15 Gillespie
House) site map with building location from 1979 tax map
Google Earth kml
file
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