The John Evert Van Alen House is a historic home at Defreestville in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built between 1793 and 1794 as a two-story, five-bay-wide, room-and-a-half-deep, wood-frame dwelling, with a two-story, three-bay addition in the Federal style added around 1840 to 1854. It is sheathed in clapboards and topped by a gable roof. The property also includes a contributing L-shaped barn and the Van Alen family burial ground. The house's original owner, John Evert Van Alen, served in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 to 1799. 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 TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountNew York, United States 3 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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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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1. John Evert Van Alen House (Wikipedia)
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The John Evert Van Alen House is a historic home at Defreestville in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built between 1793 and 1794 as a two-story, five-bay-wide, room-and-a-half-deep, wood-frame dwelling, with a two-story, three-bay addition in the Federal style added around 1840 to 1854. It is sheathed in clapboards and topped by a gable roof. The property also includes a contributing L-shaped barn and the Van Alen family burial ground. The house's original owner, John Evert Van Alen, served in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 to 1799.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1793)
completion_date/completed = 1793
In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Federal
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The house was built between 1793 and 1794 and is a two-story, five-bay wide, room and a half deep, frame dwelling with a two-story, three-bay wide addition in the Federal style.
View the Source2. John Evert Van Alen House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Wikidata item Q6232080, instance of (P31): historic house
3. John Evert Van Alen House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 412454): New York, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 412454): New York, United States
Wikidata item Q6232080, property P131/P17 (location): New York, United States
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