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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Veeder Farmhouse 2
Veeder Farmhouse #2 front view from Route 20 (August
2025)
Photos of the Veeder Farmhouse #2 in the 1982 NRHP nomination
document (1 marked April 1972; 2, 3, and 4 marked May 1980; 5 marked
June 1980)
click on an image to obtain full size view
1. Veeder Farmhouse #2 front viewed from Rte.
20
5. view from west, also showing garage
2. detail of key design of window lintels
3. detail of ashlar stone foundation
4. detail of classical front door
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Veeder Farmhouse #2 entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 19; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 25.
Farmhouse is located close to heavily travelled Western Turnpike
(U.S. 20) and "sister" house is located to the west.
Features: Two-story Greek Revival farmhouse on cut stone
foundation; unusual carved wooden lintels with Greek key design;
paneled frieze and cornice with modillions, one-story ell on rear of
house; classical recessed entrance with paneled door, transom, side
lights and pilasters; paired lunettes in gable ends.
Date of initial construction: ca. 1830
Historical and Architectural importance: This farmhouse, like
the one at 3770 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.
Window surrounds with simple fretwork and raised keystones, somewhat
similar to those on the other Veeder house, are unusual and
particularly significant on an isolated, rural farmhouse such as
this. Sidelights, columns, a transom surrounding the front door and
corner pilasters are characteristic of the Greek Revival style. The
building is one of only two nineteenth-century houses built along
the Western Turnpike on the outer fringes of the town. Relative to
its surroundings of contemporary suburbs, the building is of
exceptional architectural significance.
Veeder
Farmhouse #2 NRHP nomination document (11MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#19 Veeder Farmhouse
2) site map with building locations from 1979 tax map
Google Earth kml file
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