Brookside Museum, also known as the Aldridge House, is a historic house on the western edge of downtown Ballston Spa, New York, built in stages beginning around 1792 to 1793 as an inn for visitors drawn to the naturally carbonated spring waters that gave the village its name. Its design is primarily Georgian-Federal, with Greek Revival elements added later by owner Josiah Aldridge; the novelist James Fenimore Cooper is said to have worked on parts of The Last of the Mohicans while staying there, and the building later served as a school for boys, private residence, boarding house, sanatorium and apartments. The Saratoga County Historical Society purchased the 1.5-acre triangular property in 1970 and converted it into a museum, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as the first of four Ballston Spa properties so listed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountNew York, United States 2 Completed Year Classification
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Brookside Museum, also known as the Aldridge House, is a historic house on the western edge of downtown Ballston Spa, New York, built in stages beginning around 1792 to 1793 as an inn for visitors drawn to the naturally carbonated spring waters that gave the village its name. Its design is primarily Georgian-Federal, with Greek Revival elements added later by owner Josiah Aldridge; the novelist James Fenimore Cooper is said to have worked on parts of The Last of the Mohicans while staying there, and the building later served as a school for boys, private residence, boarding house, sanatorium and apartments. The Saratoga County Historical Society purchased the 1.5-acre triangular property in 1970 and converted it into a museum, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as the first of four Ballston Spa properties so listed.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1793)
completion_date/completed = 1793
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
Brookside Museum, sometimes known as the Aldridge House, is located on the western edge of downtown Ballston Spa, New York, United States. It is a wooden house built in 1792, one of the oldest in the village, but modified since then.
It was originally used as an inn for visitors to the spring waters that gave the village its name, very near its location. The inn had several famous guests; for exam
In Style: Greek Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Greek Revival
Uses Element: Timber, Introduction
It is a wooden house built in 1792
View the Source2. Brookside Museum (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: New York, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: New York, United States
Wikidata item Q4975111, property P131/P17 (location): New York, United States
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