{"nrhp_refnum":"04000751","name":"Houghtaling, Teunis, House","other_names":["Vredehuis"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1045 Clarksville South Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clarksville","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.56485435800005,"lon":-73.97501213999993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story frame farmhouse at 1045 Clarksville South Road, just south of Clarksville in the Town of New Scotland, Albany County, New York. The oldest part likely dates to about 1770, with additions around 1790, on a ten-acre rural parcel with a family cemetery and two farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is considered locally significant as an intact example of vernacular domestic architecture and for its link to eighteenth-century settlement of the Clarksville area. It keeps Dutch-style construction features such as anchor-bent framing and evidence of a jambless fireplace, alongside later English and New England influenced additions. An early local history called it one of the earliest surviving dwellings in the area, and its rural setting still reflects its farming past.","narrative":"Set on a wooded rise south of Clarksville in Albany County, this frame farmhouse began as a small dwelling around 1770, possibly earlier, and was enlarged to a five-bay center-hall plan about 1790. A long one-story wing was added in the late eighteenth century. The oldest section uses hand-hewn oak framing in the Dutch manner, with bents and traces of a jambless fireplace, while the later sections follow English framing practice. Inside are wrought-iron hardware, batten doors, wide plank floors, exposed beams and late Georgian mantels. The house is credited to Teunis Houghtaling, born in 1740, whose family farmed the surrounding land for generations and who is buried in a small cemetery on the property. Two agricultural outbuildings and that cemetery also contribute to the site. The house was recognized as a locally significant example of vernacular architecture and as a reminder of early Dutch and later mixed-culture settlement in the area, in a rural setting that remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c. 1770-c. 1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a single-family dwelling; the property also includes a non-historic garage and swimming pool.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.877625-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000751.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000751/e6b4266b6a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000751/e6b4266b6a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Dougtone","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albany_County_Route_312_-_New_York_-_5731848868.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dougtone</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albany_County_Route_312_-_New_York_-_5731848868.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316249","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teunis_Houghtaling_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7707067"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/houghtaling-teunis-house-04000751/"}