Shorter House (Crawford, New York)

Last updated
Shorter House
Shorter House.jpg
House in 2007
USA New York location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
LocationAndrews Rd., Thompson Ridge, NY
Nearest city Middletown
Coordinates 41°34′18″N74°20′45″W / 41.57167°N 74.34583°W / 41.57167; -74.34583 Coordinates: 41°34′18″N74°20′45″W / 41.57167°N 74.34583°W / 41.57167; -74.34583
Area2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference No. 98001004 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 24, 1998

The Shorter House is located at the end of Andrews Road in Thompson Ridge, a hamlet in the Town of Crawford in Orange County, New York, United States. It is a late 18th-century building later modified in the Greek Revival style. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]

Related Research Articles

Williamsburgh Savings Bank United States historic place

The Williamsburgh Savings Bank was a financial institution in Brooklyn, New York from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. The bank was incorporated in 1851 under legislation passed by the New York State Assembly.

Midway State Park

Midway State Park, located in Maple Springs, New York, was established in 1898 by the Jamestown & Lake Erie Railway as a picnic ground. Today, it is recognized as the fifteenth-oldest continually operating amusement park in the United States, and the fifth-oldest remaining trolley park of the thirteen still operating in the United States.

Jacob T. Walden Stone House 1730s stone house in Walden, New York

The Jacob T. Walden Stone House is on North Montgomery Street near the intersection with Wait Street in Walden, New York. It was built in the 1730s, around the time the thousand-acre Gatehouse Patent was first sold, and is one of the oldest houses remaining in the area.

John A. Crabtree House United States historic place

The John A. Crabtree House is a historic house located at 15 Factory Street in the village of Montgomery, Orange County, New York.

Harrison Meeting House Site and Cemetery Historic cemetery in Orange County, New York, US

The Harrison Meeting House Site and Cemetery, also known as the Germantown Church Site and Cemetery or just the Germantown Cemetery, is located on New York State Route 416 right at its northern terminus with NY 211, across from Orange County Airport just outside the village of Montgomery, New York.

Taylor–Corwin House United States historic place

The Taylor–Corwin House, also the Falconer Inn, is a Registered Historic Place in Pine Bush, New York. It is located at 112 Maple Street, a few houses south of its intersection with NY 52.

Benjamin Haines House United States historic place

The Benjamin Haines House, also known as the Haines Farmstead and the Haddon-Scott House, is one of the oldest buildings in the Town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York, United States. It is located at 114 Coleman Road southeast of the village of Walden.

The Smith House (Montgomery, New York) United States historic place

The Smith House is a historic home located on Albany Post Road in Town of Montgomery, Orange County, New York, approximately two miles north of NY 17K and a mile southwest of Walden. In 1759 one of the town's original settlers, Wilhelm Schmitt built a stone house on the site. His descendants replaced it in 1850 with a Greek Revival-styled house that incorporates some of the original fabric.

Bull-Jackson House United States historic place

The Bull-Jackson House, also known as Hill-Hold Museum, is located on NY 416 in the town of Hamptonburgh in Orange County, New York. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since May 17, 1974.

Robert A. Thompson House United States historic place

The Robert A. Thompson House is located along NY 302 in the Thompson Ridge section of the Orange County, New York, town of Crawford. It was built in 1822 in the Federal style. One of the stones in the northwest cable bears his initials and that date. His descendants established the Dutch-Belt dairy farm, which still operates.

Moses Mould House United States historic place

The Moses Mould House is a Registered Historic Place located at the junction of NY 17K and Kaistertown Road in the Town of Montgomery, in Orange County, New York. It is just up Kaisertown from another site on the National Register, the Jacob Shafer House. Mould was the first of a large family of German settlers in the town to bear the name. The house was built in a Greek Revival style.

John I. Crawford Farm Historic barn in New York

The John I. Crawford Farm, also Hopewell Farm, is located on NY 302 in the Thompson Ridge section of the Town of Crawford in Orange County, New York, United States. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998.

George T. Wisner House United States historic place

The George T. Wisner House, also known as Oak Hill, is a historic home located on South Street in Goshen, New York, United States. It was built about 1840, and is a Greek Revival style frame dwelling that incorporates an earlier Federal style dwelling built about 1805. It has a broad gabled roof and a central hall plan interior. The front section is 2 1/2-stories, five bays wide and four bays deep.

The National Register of Historic Places listings in Syracuse, New York are described below. There are 109 listed properties and districts in the city of Syracuse, including 19 business or public buildings, 13 historic districts, 6 churches, four school or university buildings, three parks, six apartment buildings, and 43 houses. Twenty-nine of the listed houses were designed by architect Ward Wellington Ward; 25 of these were listed as a group in 1996.

Thomas Oliver House United States historic place

Thomas Oliver House is a historic home located at Lockport in Niagara County, New York. It is a ​2 12-story Queen Anne style brick dwelling built in 1891.

Andrew Jackson Warner, also known as A. J. Warner, was a prominent architect in Rochester, New York.

Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex United States historic place

Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex is a national historic district located at Port Byron and Mentz in Cayuga County, New York. The district includes two contributing buildings ; three contributing engineering structures ; and archaeological sites associated with the canal operations. Lock 52 was constructed 1849-1853 as part of the Enlarged Erie Canal program. It remained in operation until the rerouting of the canal under the New York State Barge Canal System in 1917. The Erie House was built in 1894 and is a two-story frame structure that housed a saloon and hotel.

Balloon Farm (Frankfort, New York) United States historic place

Balloon Farm is a historic home located at Frankfort in Herkimer County, New York. It includes the Gates-Myers Residence, built in 1878. It is an imposing, nearly square, three-story eclectic Late Victorian dwelling built of dimension lumber above a cut-stone foundation.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2016-02-01.Note: This includes Robert L. Williams and John A. Bonafide (May 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Shorter House" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-02-01. and Accompanying photographs