{"nrhp_refnum":"09000908","name":"Brandow, William, House","other_names":["The Willows"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"480 Rt. 385","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Greene County","state":"NY","lat":42.25270008800004,"lon":-73.83744835399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame one-and-one-half story farmhouse known as \"the Willows,\" at 480 Route 385, one mile south of the village of Athens, Greene County, New York, built about 1788 near the Hudson River and later expanded.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion C in architecture as a representative example of eighteenth-century vernacular architecture in the Hudson Valley. It shows traditional Dutch framing with a Georgian-influenced symmetrical form. Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century additions, including Colonial Revival changes, are significant in their own right for showing the changing needs and tastes of the farming families who lived there. Its rural, undeveloped setting has changed little since the late eighteenth century.","narrative":"Located a mile south of Athens in Greene County, New York, the William Brandow House is a frame farmhouse built around 1788 on a rise facing the Hudson River. Its timber frame follows Dutch practice, using fourteen transverse bents of continuous beams, with brick nogging in the walls and shallow brick fireplaces. The symmetrical plan and window layout reflect Georgian influence. The Brandow family, who arrived in the Hudson Valley in 1710, owned the farm from 1788 to 1962 and grew wheat and fruit. Peter G. Brandow's tenure added shed wings and a Stick style porch roof in the 1870s and 1880s. His daughter Anna, a noted fruit grower, added Colonial Revival dormers and a ribbon window by 1939. The house now occupies 2.3 acres surrounded by conserved land, with a fieldstone wall and two late-nineteenth century barns. It was listed for its architecture and for the way its changes record generations of farm life in a largely unchanged rural setting.","period_of_significance":"c.1788-c.1939","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial; Other/Vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently listed with an environmental education center function; a land trust is in the process of purchasing the house to convert it into a visitors and environmental education center. The nominated 2.3 acres retain the house, two small barns and a fieldstone wall; a mid-nineteenth century hay barn burned in the 1990s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.340886-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000908.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000908/9cba4d6ea0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000908/9cba4d6ea0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RobertDrake2015","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Brandow_House_6-25-2016.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RobertDrake2015</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:William_Brandow_House_6-25-2016.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317928","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brandow_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8005859"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/greene-county/brandow-william-house-09000908/"}