Harmon Miller House
The Harmon Miller House, also known as Bound Brook, is a house built from wooden house on a medium sized farm area at the NY 23/9H on the southern edge of Claverack, New York in the United States. The building was built in the 1870s.
This is one of the few buildings in the Second Empire style in the field of Claverack. In 1997, the building on the National Register of Historic Places was recorded.
Estate
The house stands on the west side of the highway on a small rise, surrounded by trees. This includes 42 acres ( about 17 hectares) of arable land and meadows. Claverack Creek is located south of it. On the other side of the road are other houses, the center Claveracks further north. A small shed for a wagon is located south of the house.
The house is a two and a half floors scoring wooden building in post and beam construction on a brick brick foundation with a concave -roofed with slate mansard roof and overhanging eaves supported by corbels. To the south and west stretches a anderhalbstöckiger wing.
At the front, the east-facing facade, is the centrally located main entrance. Wooden steps with a balustrade lead up to him, a small -based consoles canopy protects it from the weather. It is a double window that is designed similar. All windows are fitted with ledges that are rounded on the ground floor and flat on the second floor. On the roof, sit three dormers with arched windows, the middle dormer window has two window openings.
On the north side fills a large expansive windows from the easternmost yoke. Between the two dormers a chimney rises. The south side is of similar design, but missing here the fireplace. Another large window is located at the back next to the open veranda, whose flat roof is supported by lathe-turned posts. The roof has on this side on three dormers.
The wing was constructed of similar materials as the main building. An enclosed porch extends across the entire length of the west facade. About the middle yoke rises a tower, whose mansard roof is also made of slate and which has a provided with four slices ribbon window.
From the main entrance on the eastern side leads through a pair of doors with etched glass panels, which are combined in a curved segments in frame, into the central hall with the stairs. On the north side is a large lounge with a small alcove in the back wall. The kitchen in the wing of the house has been extended to the enclosed porch. The arrangement of the rooms of the second floor was not changed, but some rooms were enlarged. In the rooms of the servants in the attic walls were removed to create a large continuous space. Much of the original equipment still exists, including the plaster of the walls, the floors, the fireplace mantels in marble and wood, and wood work such as the balustrade walnut and the spindle pole of the main staircase.
The shed for the wagon is verschindelt and covered with a Schiefermansarddach. Its east side has double top curved doors and a centrally arranged dormer. This annex is contributing resource for the entry in the National Register.
History
The farmer Harmon Miller, of the 106 acres ( about 43 hectares) built comprehensive land until 1875, his father gave him to his wedding in 1854 - the then value of $ 15,000 ( $ 446,000 in today's prices ) - commissioned 1878 local architects and builders John McClure with the construction of Bound Brook. The cost was $ 5,366 ( about $ 134,391 in today's prices ). Miller lived until his death in 1905 in the House, and members of his family lived there until she sold it in 1980. It is a private residence and was little changed, with the exception of modifications of the porches.