Mount Pleasant (Indian Falls, New York)
Mount Pleasant | |
Location | Town of Pembroke, NY |
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Nearest city | Corfu, New York |
Coordinates | 43°0′51″N 78°20′45″W / 43.01417°N 78.34583°W |
Area | 31 acres (13 ha)[2] |
Built | 1861[2] |
Architect | Mook, Abram |
Architectural style | Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 84002393[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 09, 1984 |
Mount Pleasant is a farm complex located in the
The main dwelling is a sophisticated Italianate style wood frame house. It and the other buildings have remained mostly intact since their construction. The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
Buildings and grounds
The farm is located on the south side of Indian Falls Road (
An original circular driveway leads into a triangular, uncleared northern portion of the property where the buildings are located. Hedgerows of mature trees separate this grassy area from the farmland. A three-foot (1 m) retaining wall of Medina sandstone sets off the main house from the road. The farm has a total of eight contributing resources, five buildings and three structures.[2]
Main house
The house itself is a
Its main entrance is on the west elevation, sheltered by a porch with clustered columns supporting a roof with decorative scrollwork
Three segmental gable-roofed additions project to the south of the west wing. The westernmost is one and a half stories, with wide projecting eaves supported by paired brackets with pendants. A brick chimney pierces the roof at the center. The wing's west side has a small porch similar to the other two, and a shed-roofed projection on its east. On its rear is the carriage house, with a belfry on top, and on its south the privy, with its original planked door.[2]
The main house's floor plan has remained relatively unchanged, save for some changes to the bedrooms on the first floor. Many of its finishes are original as well, such as the door and window surrounds,
Outbuildings
Due south of the main house is a garage, believed to be the original house on the property. It is a one-story gabled wood-frame structure with its original vertical board siding, paneled door and shed-roofed addition on the west. To its east is the original
The barn is to the west. It is a two-and-a-half-story structure with vertical siding,
History
The farm was established around 1847 by Abram Mook, a
In 1854 he bought the two parcels that make up the current farm and moved onto it. Records from that year show that the current garage was in existence at the time; it may have been the family residence. Mook and his brothers built a
The following year he hired seven carpenters to build the current house, replacing one on another nearby piece of land he owned that had burned down. The
Mook died in 1908. His son lost the house to foreclosure the next year, and it and the farm became the property of the Stang brothers for $5,210 ($177,000 in contemporary dollars[3]). In 1945 they sold it to LaVerne Lamkin, who owned it until the early 21st century.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Claire L. Ross (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Pleasant". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying 14 photos".
- ^ a b 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.