Guilderland
Historical
Society
- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - McKownville - Country
Club Highlands Historic District
McKownville - Country Club Highlands Historic
District
view east at 1443 Western Avenue (April
2023)
view northeast along the eastern side of Elmwood Street (April 2022)
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The 2021 NRHP nomination document (link below) contains 31 photos of
houses and streets in the McKownville - Country Club Highlands
Historic District, along with the summary descriptions of each the
95 individual contributing houses.
McKownville - Country Club Highlands was entered on the NRHP 2 June
2022 (21 April 2022 on the NY Register) [notification
letters]
Text information extracts from NRHP nomination submitted in 2021
(note that much more extensive descriptive and historical
information is contained in the original NRHP nomination)
The McKownville-Country Club Highlands Historic District is located
in the Town of Guilderland, Albany County, New York, on the western
outskirts of the City of Albany and constitutes a significant
portion of the local area known as McKownville. The historic
district’s boundary largely corresponds with a 1912 residential
subdivision called the Country Club Highlands, which was developed
on the outskirts of Albany as a suburban enclave....Sustained
housing development was initiated during the 1910s and most of the
contributing housing stock, which constitutes the district’s
singular resource type, was constructed by the end of the
1940s......the historic district encompasses a remarkably intact and
cohesive residential enclave. It retains a strong sense of place, as
manifested in its intact residential streetscapes with
characteristic expressions of early- to mid-twentieth century
American suburban architecture, and its street plan, consisting of
principal streets and parallel alleys. Conspicuous among the
district’s housing, some of which was architect designed, are
noteworthy examples of the Arts & Crafts movement in addition to
expressions of the Colonial Revival and Spanish Mission modes, among
others..........
The McKownville-Country Club Highlands Historic District is being
nominated to the NRHP..... as an intact example of an early
twentieth-century residential subdivision, and..... for its largely
intact collection of domestic suburban architecture from the first
half of the twentieth century......The historic district retains a
high level of cohesiveness as a planned residential subdivision and
chronicles the increasing popularity of suburban enclaves in the
Albany area in the early twentieth century.
The McKownville - Country Club Highlands Historic District includes
95 contributing houses, along with other contributing structures
(169 total), and 18 non-contributing items.
Dates of initial construction: 1910 - 1952
McKownville
- Country Club Highlands Historic District NRHP nomination
document (4.5MB pdf)
The McKownville Improvement Association has
additional information
for the Historic District on its website
location of McKownville - Country Club Highlands Historic
District location of contributing
and other structures
Google Earth kml
file
Guilderland NRHP properties
Guilderland Historian
Guilderland Historical Society