Lansing Manor House | |
 Lansing Manor Barn, October 2008 | |
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| Nearest city | Blenheim, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°27′4″N74°27′54″W / 42.45111°N 74.46500°W |
| Area | 300 acres (120 ha) |
| Built | 1819 |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001268 [1] |
| NYSRHP No. | 09501.000178 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 25, 1973 |
| Designated NYSRHP | June 23, 1980 |
The Lansing Manor House is a historic home located in North Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York, United States, adjacent to the Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center and Mine Kill State Park. It was built in 1819 by John Lansing Jr. for his daughter and son-in-law, Jacob Livingston Sutherland. John Lansing Jr. represented New York as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and the state's Ratification Convention in 1788.
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The manor house is a two-story, 46-feet square house with a hipped roof. It has brick-lined, wood-frame construction on the first floor and wood frame on the second. It features a five bay, one story porch along the front facade. Also on the property are: a shed and former summer kitchen, a well and its cover, outhouse, ice house, milk house, barn and silos, a possible guest / tenant house, and several other outbuildings. [2]
The manor house was restored by the New York Power Authority in 1977, and is filled with authentic furnishings from the first half of the 19th century. [3] The property, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a national historic district, is operated by the Power Authority in cooperation with the Schoharie County Historical Society.
