McMaster House

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McMaster House

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McMaster House, October 2009
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Location 207 E. Washington St., Bath, New York
Coordinates 42°20′12″N77°18′37″W / 42.33667°N 77.31028°W / 42.33667; -77.31028 Coordinates: 42°20′12″N77°18′37″W / 42.33667°N 77.31028°W / 42.33667; -77.31028
Area 0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built 1830
Architectural style Greek Revival, Vernacular Greek Revival
MPS Bath Village MRA
NRHP reference # 83001801 [1]
Added to NRHP September 30, 1983

McMaster House is a historic home located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It is a 1 12-story, five-bay frame residence built about 1830. It is a center-hall, vernacular Greek Revival-style farmhouse with a gable roof and brick interior end chimneys. Also on the property is a 1 12-story 19th-century barn. [2]

Bath (village), New York Village in New York, United States

Bath is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 5,641 at the 2000 census. Bath is the county seat of Steuben County. The community was named either for the English city of Bath, Somerset, or for Lady Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath and daughter of Sir William Pulteney, one of the original landowners.

Steuben County, New York County in the United States

Steuben County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 98,990. Its county seat is Bath. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a German general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War, though it is not pronounced the same. There is no direct link between the Baron von Steuben and modern Steuben County, which he never visited.

Greek Revival architecture architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1842.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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