{"nrhp_refnum":"05000260","name":"Pulver, William and Victoria, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2329 Cty Rd. 8","address_restricted":false,"city":"Snyderville","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.08376801500003,"lon":-73.75803504899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate farmhouse with a rooftop belvedere at 2329 County Route 8 in Snyderville, Town of Gallatin, Columbia County, New York, built about 1875 for William and Victoria Pulver.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an ornate, well-preserved example of the Italianate farmhouses built by German-American farmers in southern Columbia and northern Dutchess counties. It shows the Pulvers' status and their participation in a revival of German cultural identity. It also reflects the later change from a 19th-century farmhouse to a 20th-century country retreat.","narrative":"This two-story, square-plan wood frame house sits on a terrace above County Route 8 in the Town of Gallatin, Columbia County. Built about 1875 for farmers William and Victoria Pulver, it has a hipped roof, a deep bracketed cornice, and a pagoda-roofed belvedere with triple-arched windows. The recessed front entrance has twin doors with carved sunbursts and Neo-Grec detailing. Inside, a wide center hall holds a staircase with a mahogany balustrade, and plaster walls and wide door trim survive. The house relates to a group of large Italianate farmhouses built by German-American farmers in the old Palatine settlement areas of southern Columbia and northern Dutchess counties. An 1875 census valued it far above most houses in the town. Renovations around 1945 reshaped the interior for use as a country retreat, and work in 2002 removed later porches and repaired the exterior. The property also includes a shed and the remains of a garage.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently a single dwelling; the non-historic 1970s porches were removed and a restoration was carried out in 2002.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.073637-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000260.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000260/1f2c257025-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000260/1f2c257025-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"WindingRoad","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pulver_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">WindingRoad</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pulver_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317055","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_and_Victoria_Pulver_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8020735"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/pulver-william-and-victoria-house-05000260/"}