Thomas Peck Farmhouse

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Thomas Peck Farmhouse
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Location 7955 E. Main Rd., Lima
Coordinates 42°54′34″N77°34′21″W / 42.90944°N 77.57250°W / 42.90944; -77.57250 Coordinates: 42°54′34″N77°34′21″W / 42.90944°N 77.57250°W / 42.90944; -77.57250
Area 5.6 acres (2.3 ha)
Architectural style Gothic Revival
MPS Lima MRA
NRHP reference # 89001137 [1]
Added to NRHP August 31, 1989

Thomas Peck Farmhouse is a historic home located at Lima in Livingston County, New York. It was built about 1812 and remodeled sometime between the 1860s and 1880s. It is a two-story, five bay Federal style stone building with late 19th century Italianate and Gothic Revival inspired design features. The house is built of fieldstone and faced in cut limestone. Also on the property are three contributing dependencies and one contributing site: a privy, an ice house, a guest / tenant house, and the remains of a former barn complex. [2]

Livingston County, New York county in New York

Livingston County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,393. Its county seat is Geneseo. The county is named after Robert R. Livingston, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.

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.

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]

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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