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Gerard Crane House

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The Gerard Crane House is a stone Greek Revival residence on U.S. Route 202 in Somers, New York, built in 1849 on a 25-acre property by Gerard Crane, an early American circus entrepreneur, after his marriage to Roxana Purdy. Crane and his brother Thaddeus, descendants of a Revolutionary War officer, had settled in Somers in 1823 and built a menagerie and touring exhibition business on land bought from Hachaliah Bailey, whose own elephant exhibit is credited with starting the American circus tradition, before the Panic of 1837 hurt their Zoological Institute. The house, notable for English Renaissance style interior plasterwork unusual for a rural home, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as the northernmost such listing in Westchester County. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Historic house 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Somers, United States 3
Completed Year
1849 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
House 2
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House, Concepts

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.

In Style

Greek Revival Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Gerard Crane House (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Stone, Architectural Materials
Source Gerard Crane House (Wikipedia)
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1. Gerard Crane House (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Crane_House, lead definition
    The Gerard Crane House is a private home located on Somerstown Turnpike (U.S. Route 202) opposite Old Croton Falls Road in Somers, New York, United States.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Gerard Crane House is a stone Greek Revival residence on U.S. Route 202 in Somers, New York, built in 1849 on a 25-acre property by Gerard Crane, an early American circus entrepreneur, after his marriage to Roxana Purdy. Crane and his brother Thaddeus, descendants of a Revolutionary War officer, had settled in Somers in 1823 and built a menagerie and touring exhibition business on land bought from Hachaliah Bailey, whose own elephant exhibit is credited with starting the American circus tradition, before the Panic of 1837 hurt their Zoological Institute. The house, notable for English Renaissance style interior plasterwork unusual for a rural home, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as the northernmost such listing in Westchester County.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1849)
    completion_date/completed = 1849
  • In Style: Greek Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Greek Revival
  • Uses Element: Stone, Introduction
    It is a stone house dating to the mid-19th century
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2. Gerard Crane House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Wikidata item Q1510136, instance of (P31): historic house
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3. Gerard Crane House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Somers, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Somers, United States
Wikidata item Q1510136, property P131/P17 (location): Somers, United States
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