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The Robert C. McEwen United States Custom House, also known as U.S. Customshouse, is a historic customshouse building located at Ogdensburg in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1809-1810 as a store and warehouse. It is a two-story, utilitarian, gable roofed, stone bearing wall structure approximately 60 feet wide and 120 feet long.
Ruins of large 15th–16th century manor house. Château de Trécesson in Morbihan, Brittany. manoir du Clap, 16th-19th century Manor in la Cerlangue, Upper Normandy. Manoir de Dur-Écu, 16th century manor in Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy. Manoir de Mathan, 16th century manor in Crépon, Normandy.
Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House: Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House: January 7, 1998 : 103 NY 23B: Claverack: Two 18th century stone houses joined in building with major local historical significance 140: Conyn Van Rensselaer House
The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad was a railroad that grew, in stages, from Rome, New York to Watertown and then to Ogdensburg, New York and Massena, New York. The original Rome and Watertown Railroad terminated in Cape Vincent, NY on the St. Lawrence River. A branch of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, commonly known as ...
In France, the terms château or manoir are often used synonymously to describe a French manor house; maison-forte is the appellation for a strongly fortified house, which may include two sets of enclosing walls, drawbridges, and a ground-floor hall or salle basse that was used to receive peasants and commoners.
Property Law in New York during the 17th Century colonial period was based upon manorialism. Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a Lord of the Manor, supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject population of tenants and laborers under the jurisdiction of his manorial court.
The Hermitage was a historic home located at Linlithgo in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1774 by Robert Livingston for his eldest surviving son, Peter Robert Livingston. It wasn't completed until 1939 by then owner Ida Helen Ogilvie. After her death in 1963, the house remained vacant until 1982 when it was purchased by Margaret ...
October 15, 1966 [ 1] Designated NHL. July 19, 1964 [ 2] Ganondagan State Historic Site, (pronounced ga·NON·da·gan) also known as Boughton Hill, is a Native American historic site in Ontario County, New York in the United States. Location of the largest Seneca village of the 17th century, the site is in the present-day Town of Victor ...