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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Hiram Griggs House
Hiram Griggs House viewed from the east (August
2025).
The 2010 NRHP nomination document contains 4 photos of the Hiram
Griggs House; one is included below
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1. Hiram Griggs House front viewed to southwest from Prospect
Terrace
(photo taken by Travis Bowman 2009)
Text information extracts from NRHP nomination submitted in 2010
(note that much more extensive descriptive and historical
information is contained in the original NRHP document)
Hiram Griggs House entered on the NRHP 19 July 2010
The Hiram Griggs House at 111 Prospect Terrace occupies a
rectangular lot in the Village of Altamont.....the main elevation of
the Griggs House fronts Prospect Terrace on the north. The Griggs
House is set in a neighborhood of mixed residences and a few
commercial buildings, both the former and latter dating from the
nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries....
Features: The house is a framed dwelling, two-stories in
height, and is symmetrically massed at five bays wide by two bays
deep. It is situated on a foundation of roughly squared limestone
blocks bedded in mortar and laid in irregular courses. The roofline
is characterized as a low-pitched hipped shape, covered in rolled
metal. The roof has wide overhanging eaves, supported by pairs of
elaborately treated brackets. The exterior sheathing is narrow
wooden clapboard. The entrance elevation (north) is the most
elaborately treated, including a single-story, full width entry
porch. A polychrome paint scheme highlights the variations in shape
and decorative detailing........In plan, the interior of the house
consists of a double pile organized around a narrow center hall. A
staircase with an elaborate fluted shaft turned newel and balustrade
rises from the center hall toward the rear of the main block. The
hall is flanked by double parlors on the east side and a front
dining room and rear kitchen on the west.......The double parlors
are connected via a wide cased opening and retain paneled doors,
extensive moulded trim beaded baseboards and door surrounds, many
original lath and plaster walls......
Date of initial construction: 1873; stonemason: Robert L Zeh
Historical and Architectural importance: The Hiram Griggs
House is historically and architecturally significant as a local
example of Victorian Italianate styling and for its association with
Hiram Griggs (1836-1909), the first President (Mayor) of Altamont.
As leading citizen, and then as President, Griggs was involved in
every important event in Altamont’s formation, history and
development during his lifetime......As the home of the prominent
Griggs during the period of his greatest contributions, the house is
associated with his productive life and thus best represents his
significant accomplishments. Built in 1873 for Griggs, the home also
exhibits the form, massing and embellishment that characterized the
local and regional Italianate styling and is an intact and
distinguished example of period-piece, residential architecture of
that style in the town........
Hiram
Griggs House NRHP nomination document (39MB pdf)
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