Built 1770 Opened 1770 Architecture firm Polhemus & Coffin | NRHP Reference # 96001424 Area 102 ha Added to NRHP 16 December 1996 | |
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Nearest city Shaker Museum Rd., approximately 1 mi. S of jct. with I-90, Chatham, New York Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture | ||
John S. Williams House and Farm, also known as Old Chatham Sheepherding Farm and Inn, is a historic home and farm designated a national historic district and located at Chatham in Columbia County, New York. The district includes seven contributing buildings. They are: the main house, a farm employee cottage, another cottage, a stone tool shed (originally a smoke house), and three small barns / garages. The main house is a two story, frame building with a center hall plan. The house dates to the about 1770, but was extensively enlarged and remodelled in 1935-1936 in the Colonial Revival style, under direction by New York City architects Polhemus & Coffin.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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