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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Sharp Brothers House
The Sharp Brothers House viewed to southwest from US Route
20 (August 2025).
Photos of the Sharp Brothers House in the 1982 NRHP nomination
document (marked May 1980)
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1. Sharp Brothers House view from the
northeast
2. Front (north) elevation
3. detail of sawn scrollwork on porch brackets
4. barns located to the southeast
of the house
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Sharp Brothers House entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 16; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 28
Located to the west of an area called Sharp's Corner; together with
the barns and undeveloped farmland, they form an intact period farm
complex.
Features: Two and one-half story, Queen Anne style design;
steeply pitched multi-gabled roof with tall paneled chimneys; the
one-story porch on the north and east side retains original highly
decorated, scroll-sawn brackets; the first floor windows along porch
are unusual French doors.
Date of construction: rear ca. 1850; front ca. 1880
Historical and Architectural importance: This house is
believed to have been built for the Sharp brothers, a prominent
farming family of the town in the mid-nineteenth century. The rear
portion of the house was first built in the 1850's. The porches and
front section were added by John H. Clutein in the late 1880's. The
finely detailed bracketing and railing of the porch remain intact
and contribute greatly to the modest Queen Anne style design. The
architecturally and historically significant farmhouse recalls the
Town of Guilderland's prosperous 19th-century agrarian past.
Sharp
Brothers House NRHP nomination document (10MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#16 Sharp Brothers
House) site map with building locations from 1979 tax
map
Google Earth kml file
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