Architectural style Colonial Area 6,100 m² Added to NRHP 19 May 2005 | NRHP Reference # 05000440 Year built 1740 | |
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Location 44 Laura Ln., Defreestville, New York | ||
Sharpe Homestead and Cemetery is a historic home and cemetery located at Defreestville in Rensselaer County, New York. The house was built about 1740 and is a 1 1⁄2-story rectangular frame dwelling, 20 feet by 40 feet, topped by a steeply pitched gable roof covered with standing seam metal. It rests on a low fieldstone foundation. The family cemetery contains approximately a dozen stones marking the graves of the Sharpe and Barringer families.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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Sharpe Homestead and Cemetery Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA