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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Lainhart Farm Complex
Lainhart Farmhouse viewed from the east (August
2025).
The 2001 NRHP nomination document contains 15 photos of the Lainhart
Farm Complex (taken by John A. Bonafide in 2001); three are included
below
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1. Lainhart Farmhouse viewed from northeast
5. Dutch barn, east elevation; farmhouse on left across
Lainhart Road 9. East elevation of horse barn, south
elevation of the Dutch barn
Text information extracts from NRHP nomination of 2001 (note that
much more extensive descriptive and historical information is
contained in the original NRHP document)
Lainhart Farm Complex entered on the NRHP 8 June 2001 as "Lainhart
Farm Complex and Dutch Barn"
Lainhart Farm Complex is located on both sides of Lainhart Road in
the northwest corner of the town of Guilderland..... Open rolling
farmland and wood lots bound the nominated property on all sides.
The complex of buildings is grouped together and set close to the
road, which bisects the nominated acreage.
The nominated farm complex includes the farmhouse (ca. l851,
contributing building), smokehouse (ca. l851, contributing), wagon
house (ca. l851, contributing), horse barn (ca. l851, contributing),
the Dutch barn (ca. l819, contributing), and the family burial
ground (ca. l796, contributing). The 158 acres historically
associated with the farm is also been classified as a contributing
feature of the nomination.
Features: The Lainhart farmhouse..... is a two story, timber
framed, gabled-L, Greek Revival building. The main block, wing and
wing extensions are covered by gable roofs sheathed with asphalt
shingles. The building is sheathed with clapboards. The east
elevation of the main block forms the architectural focal point of
the building. The gable fronted facade is highlighted by wide corner
boards and a finely crafted Greek Revival style entryway.....
Generally, much of the floor plan, window and door trims, and
plaster wall finishes survive.
Date of initial construction: Farmhouse ca. 1851; Dutch barn
ca. l819; expanded, and perhaps moved, 1859
Historical and Architectural importance: Lainhart Farm
Complex is an outstanding collection of farm architecture in the
town of Guilderland, Albany County. It is architecturally
significant as a largely intact example of an late eighteenth early
nineteenth century tenant farmstead that developed with the
expansion of mix agricultural economy and which has retained its
original buildings and agricultural setting. Of particular interest
is the farm’s Dutch barn. Originally constructed in the late
eighteenth or early nineteenth century, the building was enlarged in
1859-60 marking the farm’s period of greatest expansion. The
Lainhart farm derives additional historical significance through its
association with the same family for more than seven generations.
Established prior to the American Revolution, the farm has descended
through the Lainhart family virtually intact for nearly two and
one-half centuries.
The Lainhart farm, with its intact farmhouse, agricultural
outbuildings, cemetery and acreage retains a high degree of
integrity of setting, location, feeling, association, design,
materials and craftsmanship and survives as an important local
reminder of the development and evolution of the town of
Guilderland.
Lainhart
Farm Complex NRHP nomination document (38MB pdf)
map location (Lainhart Farm Complex property) from NRHP
document
Google Earth kml
file
Guilderland NRHP properties
Guilderland Historian
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