Stephen Storm House

42.226388888889 - 73.714722222222Koordinaten: 42 ° 13 ' 35 " N, 73 ° 42' 53 " W

The Stephen Storm House is located on the New York State Route 217 just east of Claverack, in Columbia County in upstate New York. Built of brick house in the Federal style dates from the early 19th century.

It combines aspects of the Federal styles in urban and rural buildings, and the lavish interior of the house is largely intact. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Estate

The property is a 3.6 acre plot of land on the north side of Route 217, about 400 meters east of the junction of the New York State Route 23, The house itself is set back from the road and behind a wooden fence. A small stream separates the house from the foundation of two remaining now spent barns. The remains are considered contributing to the historic character of the property. A long driveway branches at one of the ruins, with the eastern branch leads to the house. Blocks of limestone flank the end of the path to the front door and come from the time, pulled up at the visitor with carriages.

The land rises to the east gently. Similar houses are on larger, semi- wooded land east and west of the property. On the other side of the street is a farmland, which rises to the south.

The house has two floors and is a brick building on a stone foundation, comprising five to two yokes. In the roof is a tin roof. A side wing of brick extends to the northwest corner of the house. Along it and behind it is a complex of sheds, which have now been converted into a modern kitchen and a working space.

On the south facade all the windows blinds have a window shop. The roofline is marked by a cornice. A worn by columned portico, similar to the Dr. Abram Jordan House, which is one and a half kilometers to the west on Route 23, sheltered the main entrance, which is flanked by fitted with fixed blinds side lights and closed at the top with a brick stone arch will.

Each one window per floor, each one above the other, are located on the east and west side of the house; on the east side is still an unusually tipped elliptical window added in the attic floor. The wing on the north end was supplemented with a newer two-story wing and several additions.

An elongated central hall is located behind the panels composed of six main door. On both sides salons, whose wooden paneling and moldings are original. Each stage of the dreiläufigen staircase has wood-carved ornaments on the side of which rise the made ​​of cherry wood balusters in the style of the house. At the far end of the hall a smaller staircase leads to the wings.

Both salons have their former interior products, including the inner shutters and the open fireplaces, with the eastern salon is decorated consuming. His door has in addition to the detailed moldings and Schnitzverzierungen metal decorative hardware. The fire environment has a wide cornice, the center of which is provided by a rectangular box with offset grooves and a central floral motif. It is flanked by two smaller rectangles in which each provided with a groove strip is located. The sides of the fireplaces have fluted columns.

On both sides of a door to a small room in the back area of the house pilasters, on which rests a cornice, the center of which carved sun rays and rosettes at the ends rise. Here again there is metal decorative hardware. The room has a plaster ceiling with an oval shape and a central medallion in it.

West, in the salon equipment is similar, but is missing here the cornice above the door leading to the west entrance of the house. The local vestibule leads to the rear wing. The original kitchen wing has reconstructed fireplaces and a Klöntür; this is original. In his first floor there is a bedroom. The second floor bedrooms are similar in size and layout to the salons below. These are decorated with intricate original detail work, but not quite as rapidly as the ground floor. The fire environment in the eastern bedroom is flanked by pilasters and a deep cornice. There are no shutters on the inside.

History

The Storm family had immigrated mid-17th century from the Duchy of Brabant to Nieuw Nederland. Originally, the family settled in Brooklyn, but the descendants of the valley of the Hudson River worked their way northward by clad different public offices after the takeover of the region by the British and later to the American Revolution. Thomas Storm, an ancestor of Stephen Storm, owned land in the area, which lies to the south of the Dutchess County today and gave Stormville his name.

Stephen was one of two descendants of the family, the end of the 18th century settled in Claverack. He married in 1807 the local Elizabeth Phillips. At that time owned the land on which the house is located today, the father of this woman. The house was built within a few years, but until some later recorded in the register.

At the time, Federal-style houses in common. The Stephen Storm House combines a perfectly normal size for a rural deposits with features of the architectural style that you usually regularly encountered more in municipal buildings of this style, such as the narrow central hall, the small depth of the house and single storey extensions to the rear. The interior of the house is one of the most richly appointed under the buildings of that time in Columbia County New York.

Storm 1817 bought 150 acres of land on the opposite side of the house of Jacob R. Van Rensselaer, a descendant of the original Dutch family, whose spokesman and later as Secretary of State of the state was active locally and as a member of the New York State Assembly. Storm himself was in the early 1820s during a term of office a member of the Assembly.

1839 Storm moved after the death of his wife to the nearby Hudson around and sold his house to Andrew powder. Whose family stopped on the rear wing, which was the only significant change in the building after it was built. The family lived here until the death of Andrews around 1900. Belonged to the later owners John Delafield, a Livingston descendent of the family and residents of Montgomery Place, which ushered in the conservation of historic fabric in the 1970s.