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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Veeder Farmhouse 1
The Veeder Farmhouse #1 was destroyed by fire ~2016.
The Veeder Farmhouse #1 site viewed extant on Google Earth (July
2015) and burnt out (June 2018)
Photos of the Veeder Farmhouse #1 in the 1982 NRHP nomination
document (marked April 1972; May 1980)
click on an image to obtain full size view
1. Veeder Farmhouse #1 farm, house & barn view from Rte.
20
2. Veeder Farmhouse #1 side elevation (east side)
3. Veeder Farmhouse #1 front
elevation (north side)
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Veeder Farmhouse #1 entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 18; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 24.
The house is located far back from the road surrounded by
undeveloped farmland. "Sister" house is located to the east. Barn is
modern, not historic.
Features: Two-story, Greek Revival farmhouse with cut stone
foundation; decorated window lintels with raised keystone design;
recessed center entrance with side lights and transom; one and
one-half story ell on south side of house. Front porch added around
1900 (removed before these pictures, i.e. 1972; sloping traces of it
visible in photo 3).
Date of initial construction: ca. 1830
Historical and Architectural importance: The farmhouse, like
the one at 3858 Western Turnpike, is believed to have been built for
members of the prominent Veeder family. The attention given to
detail in this rural building reflects the prosperity of the family.
The window and door lintels, with raised keystone and brick-like
wood moulds, are unusual and particularly significant on an isolated
rural farmhouse such as this. The recessed front door with
sidelights, transom, and Doric pilasters, and the cornice returns
reflect Greek Revival stylistic influence. The building is one of
only two early nineteenth century houses built along the Western
Turnpike on the outer fringes of the town. It has survived among
modern tract development and exhibits considerable architectural
significance relative to such surroundings.
Veeder
Farmhouse #1 NRHP nomination document (10MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#18 Veeder Farmhouse
1) site map with building locations from 1979 tax map
Google Earth kml file
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