NRHP Reference # 14000290 Architectural style Georgian architecture | Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 9 June 2014 | |
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Location 4183 NY 29, Salem, New York Built c. 1787 (1787), c. 1796-1812, c. 1825, c. 1830, c. 1900 Similar Salem Tavern, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden | ||
Martin–Fitch House and Asa Fitch Jr. Laboratory, also known as the Fitch House, is a historic home and laboratory located at Salem, Washington County, New York. The house was built about 1787, and modified between about 1796 and 1812, and again about 1830. It is a two-story, five bay, Late Georgian style heavy timber frame dwelling. It has a steep hipped slate roof with dormers and two interior chimneys. The Asa Fitch, Jr. Laboratory, or “Bug House,” was built about 1825 and enlarged about 1860. It is a small two-story, gable roofed frame rectangular building with a lean-to addition. Also on the property are the contributing barn (c. 1825 and later) and milk house (c. 1900). It was the home and laboratory of Asa Fitch (1809-1879), first occupational entomologist in the U.S.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.