Neher-Elseffer House
The Neher-Elseffer House is a residential building on US Highway 9 in Rhinebeck , New York , north of the intersection with New York State Route 9G located. It was built in 1746 using a timber frame construction and is one of the rare structures from the time before the American Revolutionary War that was built using this construction method in Rhinebeck and the surrounding area . The current state reflects the renovations that were carried out around 1800; the interior of the building was changed in the 1830s. The property belongs to the city and is used as a storage room. It was damaged by fire in 2000 , which resulted in renovations and repairs. In 2003 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
Building
The Saltbox house is on a tree-covered property on the east side of US Highway 9. The approximately half an acre property is the remainder of an originally much larger farm. It is a one-and-a-half-story building in timber frame construction on a stone base. The main block is 12.3 m long and 10.8 m wide. A 4 m long side wing with a flat roof is located on the south side.
The gable roof of the house is designed as a standing seam roof . The front facade is clad with modern inverted formwork , which was installed after a fire in 2000 destroyed the original clapboard facade . The main entrance is in the middle of the front. It leads to a small central hall with larger rooms on either side and a corresponding exit at the rear. There is also a staircase to the upper floor.
The rooms are not inhabited and are currently used as storage. At the north end, an open fireplace and the original fireplace surround were removed because of the damage caused by the fire. The upper floor was also badly damaged. The basement has most likely retained the original character of all rooms in the house. In 2003 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
On the property there is an outbuilding, a shed with a gable roof. This is considered to be a contributing factor as it was built around the remainder of an older shed which, according to the inscription on its central support beam, was built around 1770. At the back of the property are the remains of another shed and a well.
history
The first known resident of the house was Franz Neher, one of the first settlers from the Palatinate in the area. He had come to New York from Birkenfeld with his father as a little boy . Karl's name appears in the region's tax records until his death in 1733. Franz was a captain during the French and Indian Wars and later became a shoemaker.
The records of landowner Robert Livingston show that a Ludowick Elseffer was tenant of the property in 1762, which at the time comprised 19.5 hectares . His descendants owned the property down to the last occupant, Karen Losee. They modified the facade around 1800 and renewed the interior of the building in the 1830s. The stairs were moved to the rear of the building and the ceilings were plastered. The south wing was added in 1872. After the house was already empty, it was destroyed by fire in 2000. The front facade had to be re-clad and the chimney on the north side removed.
The property was later donated to the Quitman Resource Center , which is planning to restore the house to include a historical museum. In 2002, the Preservation League of New York State gave a grant to conduct an inventory of the historic building, and two years later the state gave $ 25,000 in a matching fund for the restoration of the back wall and an archaeological study of the property .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Peter Shaver: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Neher-Elseffer House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . February 14, 2003. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
- ↑ History ( English ) Quitman Resource Center. Archived from the original on October 17, 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
- ↑ Peter Sinclair: HVVA newsletter, Part Two ( English ) Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture. August 2004. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
Web links
- Palatine Farmstead at Old Rhynbeck ( Memento from February 11, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 41 ° 57 ′ 32 " N , 73 ° 53 ′ 30" W.