Albertus Van Loon House | |
Location | 85 North Washington Street,[2] Athens, New York |
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Coordinates | 42°16′01″N 73°48′19″W / 42.266946°N 73.805299°W |
Built | 1724[3][4] |
Architect | Albertus Van Loon[3] |
Architectural style | Dutch Colonial[4] |
MPS | Village of Athens MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 80002619[1] |
Added to NRHP | 28 November 1980 |
The Albertus Van Loon House (/væn ˈloʊn/, like van loan) is a 1.5 story native stone home in the village of Athens, New York, United States. Built in 1724 by Albertus Van Loon, one of eight children of Jan Van Loon,[5] it is one of the oldest extant buildings in its part of New York State.[citation needed]
It is located at 85 North Washington Street (also known as New York State Route 385), inside the Village of Athens Multiple Resource Area (MRA).[6]
Jan was the earliest European settler to the area, and gave the settlement its first name: Loonenburg. Only one wall of his house remains in the current structure, at 39 South Washington Street.[2]
Albertus was among those who donated land for the town church, today occupied by the Zion Lutheran Church in Athens in 1853.[6] His house is in what was called the Upper Village.[5] The home is an elongated rectangle; a gambrel roof was added between 1775–1800. After Albertus died in 1754,[7] the Van Loon family lived in the house for three generations and moved out in the early 19th century.[6]