Verbeck House
The Verbeck House is a former apartment building on Church Street ( NY 50 ), just south of the center of Ballston Spa , New York . It is a wooden post construction built towards the end of the 19th century .
The house was one of the last structures designed by the influential regional architect, Marcus F. Cummings . It is one of the few houses he planned towards the end of his career and one of the few of his Queen Anne style works . Much of the ornamental decorative elements from this era have been preserved inside.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was then used by the National Bottle Museum for a period of time ; this facility received state funding as a matching fund to reconstruct the building . After a dispute with the parent organization, the museum moved into larger premises in the center of town. Today the building houses a few freelance offices.
building
The house is on a small lot on the west side of the street, just south of High Street ( NY 67 ) and is partially shaded by tall trees. A parking lot was built on the south side and serves the office workers in the house. The area around the house consists largely of residential buildings.
The two-and-a-half-story building with four by six bays stands on a stone foundation . The facade is mostly clad with narrow wooden planks , the supporting elements are emphasized in shape and color. The slate roof is surrounded by a molded cornice . Two-story yokes protrude on the south and east fronts of the house, and a balustraded porch is east of the main entrance. The lintels are decorated with. One of brick masonry fireplace with console rises near the southeast corner of the house.
The main entrance is a wooden door with six fields and side windows made of stained glass as well as a fighter window . It opens into a central hall decorated with hollow-embossed floral-patterned wallpaper in the early Art Nouveau style and runs almost the length of the house, giving access to the salon rooms and the other rooms, which are paneled with cherry wood . A staircase made of walnut wood with turned balusters leads to the second floor. The doors at the west end of both corridors have stained glass windows in the same pattern as the entrance hall decoration.
The oak parquet floor is original. The house has rare chandeliers that could be powered by either gas lights or electric lights . The steam-heated radiators work, the pantry for the butler is still intact. There is no evidence of previous outbuildings.
history
The house was planned for James Verbeck, a prominent local lawyer; it was one of the last houses Cummings built before the architect retired in 1891. Cummings is primarily known for its commercial buildings in the Central Troy Historic District . Most of his previously built houses were built before 1869, after a city fire ravaged Troy, and conformed to Italianate architecture or the Second Empire . His use of elements of the Queen Anne style was thus a stark contrast to his earlier work in home planning.
Verbeck's descendants owned the house until 1978 and maintained it, including the interior, almost in its original state. The following year, it became the Federation of Historical Bottle Club and the National Bottle Museum rebuilt . The museum received in 1989 a state grant in the amount of 46,000 US dollars , and left the house in the original colors redecoration.
Three years later there was a dispute between the Federation and the museum operator, the National Bottle Museum Society, and the museum's license agreement for the house was terminated . A subsidiary agreement in the deed with which the Verbecks family had donated the house provided for it to be returned to the family if it was not used as a museum for at least 23 years; However, this was lifted when the state grant for the reconstruction was approved. The Federation eventually put the house up for sale. In 2009 it housed the offices of an insurance agency and a financial service provider.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Raymond Smith: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Verbeck House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . February 1983. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
- ↑ a b Steve Cheslow: Ballston Spa Restoration: National Bottle Museum Becoming Returnable to Grandeur ( English ) In: Albany Times-Union . Hearst Corporation . November 9, 1990. Accessed on September 23, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kenneth C. Crowe: 4 Capital District Historic sites to Share $ 312,000 State Grant (English) . In: Albany Times-Union , Hearst Corporation , March 22, 1989. Retrieved October 25, 2009. “ The $ 46,000 grant for the Verbeck House in Ballston Spa will help the National Bottle Museum restore the 1889 Victorian residence that houses the museum collection. "
- ↑ Bruce Scruton: Bottle Museum to Close June 25 (English) . In: Albany Times-Union , Hearst Corporation , June 16, 1992. Retrieved September 23, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bruce Scruton: National Bottle Museum Faces Eviction (English) . In: Albany Times-Union , Hearst Corporation , November 9, 1991. Retrieved September 23, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bruce Scruton: Operators Hope to Reopen Bottle Museum (English) . In: Albany Times-Union , Hearst Corporation , September 1, 1992. Retrieved September 23, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ballston Spa Businesses & Professionals ( English ) Ballston Spa Business & Professional Association. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
Coordinates: 43 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 73 ° 50 ′ 56 ″ W.