Stephen Storm House
Coordinates: 42 ° 13 ′ 35 " N , 73 ° 42 ′ 53" W.
The Stephen Storm House is located at the New York State Route 217 just east of Claverack , in Columbia County in the state of New York . The brick- built federal style house was built at the beginning of the 19th century.
It unites aspects of the federal style in urban and rural buildings, and the intricately designed interior of the house is largely intact. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 .
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The property is 3.6 acres on the north side of Route 217, approximately four hundred yards east of the junction with New York State Route 23 . The house itself is set back from the road and is behind a wooden fence. A small stream separates the house from the still existing foundation of two barns that have since burned down. The remains are considered to contribute to the historical character of the property. A long driveway branches off at one of the ruins, with the eastern branch leading to the house. Blocks of limestone flanking the end of the path to the front door and date from the time, pulled up in the visitor with carriages.
The terrain rises gently to the east. Similar houses stand on larger, half-wooded lots to the east and west of the property. On the other side of the road is a field that rises to the south.
The house itself has two floors and is a brick building on a stone foundation that comprises five by two bays . The roof is a sheet metal roof. A brick wing extends to the northwest corner of the house. Alongside and behind it is a complex of sheds that have now been converted into a modern kitchen and work space.
On the south facade all windows have blinds as shutters . The eaves are marked by a cornice . A portico supported by columns , similar to the one on Dr. Abram Jordan House , which is one and a half kilometers further west on Route 23, shields the main entrance, which is flanked by side lights with fixed blinds and closed at the top with a stone-walled arch.
One window on each floor, one above the other, is located on the east and west side of the house; On the east side there is an unusually pointed elliptical window on the attic floor. The side wing at the northern end was supplemented with a newer two-story wing and several extensions.
A long, central hall is located behind the main door, which is composed of six panels. On both sides there are salons whose wooden paneling and moldings are original. Each step of the three-flight staircase has wood-carved decorations on the side, and handrails made of cherry wood rise above it in the style of the house. At the rear end of the hall, a smaller staircase leads to the wing structures.
Both salons retain their earlier interiors, including interior shutters and open fireplaces, with the eastern salon being more elaborately decorated. In addition to the detailed moldings and carving decorations, its door has decorative metal fittings. The fireplace surround has a wide cornice, the center of which is provided with a rectangular field with recessed grooves and a central flower motif. It is flanked by two smaller rectangles, each of which has a grooved strip below it. The sides of the chimneys have fluted pillars.
On either side of a door to a smaller room at the back of the house rise pilasters on which rests a cornice, the center of which is carved sunbeams and has rosettes at the ends. Here, too, there are metal decorative fittings. The room has a stucco ceiling with an oval shape and a central medallion in it.
The interior of the salon to the west is similar, but the cornice above the door that leads to the west entrance of the house is missing. The vestibule there leads to the rear wing. The original kitchen wing has reconstructed fireplaces and a Klöntür ; this is original. There is a bedroom on the upper floor. The bedrooms on the second floor are similar in size and layout to the drawing rooms below. These are also decorated with intricate original detail work, but not quite as lavishly as on the ground floor. The fireplace area in the east bedroom is flanked by pilasters and a deep cornice. There are no shutters on the inside.
history
The Storm family immigrated to Nieuw Nederland from the Duchy of Brabant in the middle of the 17th century . Originally the family settled in Brooklyn , but the descendants continued to work their way north up the Hudson River valley, holding various public offices after the British takeover of the region and later after the American Revolution . Thomas Storm, an ancestor of Stephen Storm, owned land in what is now south Dutchess County and gave Stormville its name.
Stephen was one of two descendants of the family who settled in Claverack in the late 18th century. He married local Elizabeth Phillips in 1807. At that time the land on which the house is now belonged to this woman's father. The house was built within a few years, but only a few later recorded in the cadastre .
Federal style houses were common at the time. The Stephen Storm House combines a size that is quite common for a rural occurrence with features of the architectural style that are usually found in urban buildings of this style, such as the narrow central hall, the shallow depth of the house and one-story extensions at the rear. The interior of the house is one of the most lavishly appointed of the structures of that time in New York's Columbia County.
In 1817 Storm bought 150 acres of land on the opposite side of the house from Jacob R. Van Rensselaer , a descendant of the originally Dutch family who was active locally and as a member of the New York State Assembly , its spokesman and later Secretary of State . Storm himself was a member of the Assembly during a tenure in the early 1820s.
In 1839, after the death of his wife, Storm moved to nearby Hudson and sold his house to Andrew Pulver. His family added to the rear wing, which was the only significant change to the structure after its construction. The family lived here until Andrew's death around 1900. Later owners included John Delafield, a descendant of the Livingston family and a resident of Montgomery Place , who initiated the preservation of the historic substance in the 1970s.
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supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f Ruth Piwonka and John A. Bonafide: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Stephen Storm House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . May 1997. Accessed December 23, 2009. See also: accompanying photos