Nathaniel Parmeter House

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Nathaniel Parmeter House
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Location Potsdam, New York, U.S.
Coordinates 44°38′33″N74°59′13″W / 44.64250°N 74.98694°W / 44.64250; -74.98694 Coordinates: 44°38′33″N74°59′13″W / 44.64250°N 74.98694°W / 44.64250; -74.98694
Area less than one acre
Built 1830
Architectural style Federal
MPS Red Potsdam Sandstone Resources Taken from Raquette River Quarries MPS
NRHP reference # 03000027 [1]
Added to NRHP June 6, 2003

Nathaniel Parmeter House is a historic home located at Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a 1 12-story, three-by-two-bay, gable-roofed rural Federal-style residence constructed of red Potsdam Sandstone in the slab and binder style. A 1-story frame ell was removed in 1935. [2]

St. Lawrence County, New York County in the United States

St. Lawrence County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,944. The county seat is Canton. The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River, which in turn was named for the Christian saint Lawrence of Rome, on whose Feast day the river was discovered by French explorer Jacques Cartier.

Federal architecture architectural style

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federalist Era. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds to the classicism of Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Regency architecture in Britain and to the French Empire style.

Potsdam Sandstone

The Potsdam Sandstone, more formally known as the Potsdam Group, is a geologic unit of mid-to-late Cambrian age found in Northern New York and northern Vermont and Quebec and Ontario. A well-cemented sandstone of nearly pure quartz, in the 19th century it was widely used in construction and in refractory linings for iron furnaces.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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