Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer House and Mill Complex is a historic home and mill complex consisting of 14 interrelated buildings and located at Claverack in Columbia County, New York.
During the Gilded Age, the house was "Greek Revivaled" with the addition of a white balustrade and a grand porch with pillars, as well as a two-story rear addition built in 1929 and today, the home is roughly 6,000 square feet,[4] and has nineteen rooms.[5]
Located behind the house is a former office c. 1840 and two large barns c. 1840. The mill dates to the 18th century and includes additions completed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Also on the property are the remains of early waterworks, a store building or former cooperage, a frame dwelling c. 1830, two additional dwellings, and an Italianate dwelling with four outbuildings dated to about 1884 (carriage house, ice house, shop and tool shed, and small animal barn).[6]
Later ownership
The Millers' 1929 rear addition, 1934
In the latter part of the 19th century, Clifford Miller and his family, bought the home and were responsible for the 1920s addition where they held dances, as well as creating the vast gardens, fish ponds, and landscaping the property with specimen trees.[2] In the late 1950s, the family divided the home up into seven apartments so their children could also raise their families there. In the 1960s, it was sold to a real estate company that parceled off much of the surrounding land for development.[4]
^Desjardins, Simon; Pharoux, Pierre; and Gallucci, John A. Castorland Journal: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Northern New York State By French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010.
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