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Seaman Farm was a historic home and farm complex located at Dix Hills in Suffolk County, New York. The main dwelling was built about 1805 and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, shingled dwelling with a saltbox profile. It has a five-bay, center entrance main facade. Also on the property are two barns, a corncrib, three sheds, and a well structure. [2]
Augustus Frisbie House is a historic home located at Salisbury Center in Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1805 and is a two-story, five-bay, gable roofed frame residence with a one-story, gable roofed wing in the Federal style. The main block is over a cut limestone foundation above a full basement. It is preserved as a museum of ...
The main residence, a two-story brick building set on an English basement, replaced an earlier structure that was the home of Van Rensselaer's father, General Robert Van Rensselaer (a brother of Lt. Gov. of New York Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Catherine Van Rensselaer, who married Gen. Philip Schuyler, later a U.S. Senator).
Franklin Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Franklin in Delaware County, New York. The district contains 242 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and one contributing object.
Image credits: newyork1990s The city started getting cleaned up with the election of mayor Rudy Giuliani in the mid-90s, he says. “Especially the 42nd Street area, which went from a very seedy ...
New York newspapers were read across the nation, particularly, the New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, the voice of the new Republican Party. [30] As immigration increased in cities, poverty rose as well. The poorest crowded into low-cost housing such as the Five Points and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods in Manhattan.
In 1805, it moved, this time to Lafayette Street, stretching from 4th to 8th streets [15] in what were then the northern reaches of the city, [2]: 139 [10]: 61 the area that later became Astor Place, 4th Street, Broadway, and the Bowery. [2]: 45 Its theater's boxes faced the garden and blocked the stage from the street.
Gen. Walter Martin House is a historic home located at Martinsburg in Lewis County, New York. It was built in 1805 and consists of the original two story, hip roofed, stone Federal main block with Greek Revival wings added about 1835. The front features a projecting center pavilion surmounted by a triangular pediment.