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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Jacob Crounse Inn
The Jacob Crounse Inn viewed from the south (August 2025).
Photos of the Jacob Crounse Inn in the 1982 NRHP nomination document
(2, 3 and 4 marked May 1980)
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1. Jacob Crounse Inn viewed from the
southwest
2. detail showing lantern at intersecting gable
3. stone carriage step in front of old
inn
4. detail of porch columns
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Jacob Crounse Inn entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 28; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 5.
This area along Rte. 146 was the center of the hamlet of
Knowersville (now Altamont). Other buildings are located adjacent to
the inn.
Features: The original building was rectangular in plan with
a gable roof. Around 1870 the inn was enlarged slightly by adding a
center gable wing on the front and a one-story porch. Porch has
squared columns and hipped roof; a large, square, windowed cupola is
at the intersection of the gables.
Date of initial construction: ca. 1833.
Historical and Architectural importance: This large inn was
built for Jacob Crounse in the 1830's and was a very popular
stopping place for travellers on the Schoharie Turnpike. Stage
coaches would change their horses here so the inn was a center of
activity. Although the building has been used as a residence for
over fifty years, the house retains the ambience of the old inn. The
Crounse family was one of the earliest to settle this area and was
very active in the politics of the town. The building retains
significant architectural features such as a large square cupola and
square porch columns of the Doric order. The building survives
intact amidst modern suburban development and is particularly
important relative to this surrounding.
Jacob
Crounse Inn NRHP nomination document (10MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#28 Jacob Crounse
Inn) site map with building location from 1979 tax map
Google Earth kml file
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