{"nrhp_refnum":"87001101","name":"Sipperly Lown Farmhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rhinebeck","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.96627090550004,"lon":-73.885228928122,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex on about 27 acres straddling Route 9 in the north part of the town of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York. It includes a frame farmhouse built about 1868, a Dutch-type barn from about 1800, and other farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farmhouse is a picturesque mid-nineteenth century example of Italianate and Gothic Revival design, showing how local Germanic building traditions gave way to national styles. The surviving outbuildings, especially the rare Dutch barn, show how the working farmstead evolved over a long period. The reviewer recommended acceptance under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Along Route 9 in northern Rhinebeck, this farm of about 27 acres combines a picturesque frame farmhouse, built around 1868, with a group of older farm buildings. The house has a cruciform plan, a cross-gable roof with decorative bargeboards, clapboard siding, and scroll-sawn porches, reflecting Italianate and Gothic Revival fashion. Inside, the original room layout, woodwork, staircase and marble mantelpieces remain, and a cellar beehive oven and Federal-style hearth suggest an earlier house fragment was incorporated. Across the road stands a Dutch barn from about 1800, a rare surviving example of its type, with massive pegged H-frame timbers. A later nineteenth-century barn, a corn crib and a wagon shed add to the group. The land was first tied to the Sipperly family, early Palatine settlers, and later passed to the Lown family. Together the buildings show how local Germanic building customs gave way to national styles and how the farm developed over time.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800 - ca. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate and Gothic Revival (picturesque, eclectic)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residence; condition is listed as good, with no threats known. The interior survives substantially intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.104925-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001101.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001101/f3509d041d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001101/f3509d041d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sipperly-Lown_Farmhouse,_Rhinebeck,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Sipperly-Lown_Farmhouse,_Rhinebeck,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312632","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipperly-Lown_Farmhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7525823"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/sipperly-lown-farmhouse-87001101/"}