The Terwilliger-Smith Farm is located on Cherrytown Road near the hamlet of Kerhonkson in Rochester City in Ulster County, New York, USA. Founded in the mid-19th century.
It stays on the same lot for its entire existence. With the latest farm buildings dating from the early 20th century, it is a rare example of a complete historic farm in this area, reflecting a different era in the evolution of local farms. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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Buildings and reasons
This farm is located on the north side of the road approximately one mile (1.6 km) east of Samsonville Road (Route 3). This is a pack of 28 acres (11 acres) on the land that gently flows northward to Mombaccus Creek. The open ground behind the property allows the view of the eastern range of the Catskill Mountains, matched to the view towards Shawangunk Ridge in the other direction. The surrounding properties are primarily small farms and residences, with their fields limited by forests.
There are 13 buildings and one site on the property, most of them concentrated around a horseshoe-shaped entrance, sheltered by mature maples, to the front. In addition to homes, they include smoke homes, latrines, slaughterhouses, pig houses, grocery stores, barns, chicken houses, and shedding tools all dating into the mid-19th century. Also on property are early 20th century buildings including warehouses, ice houses, dairy houses, and garages.
Main house
The house is a two-story and five-bay wooden frame structure located on the original board. It is topped with a metal-plated saddle with snow guards, pierced by a brick chimney at both ends. On the roofline is a cornice with a return. All windows are hung twice as much as six times as much as six times.
In the north (rear) there is one-floor one-floor extension with raised parapet. The three-bay terraces supported by four square wooden columns overshadow the main entrance. Equipped with a one-story terrace in the west.
The entrance, flanked by sidelights, opens into the central hall with original wooden flooring, trim, and door hardware. A ladder leading upstairs to the bedroom. Another staircase leads to the basement, divided into three rooms. The original cistern is located under the kitchen; the floor maintains its original bluestone.
Outbuildings
In the opposite corner of the property, the granary serves as a counterpoint to the house. This is a four-story wooden roof frame structure built on a hillside. Part of the foundation of his burning predecessor's warehouse, leaving a site of agricultural contribution. The main block of three bays is constructed of dimensional wood with new sides and metal roof. A smaller two-story ell project to the south. Inside is a central drive with a thatched attic on both sides and four stalls standing for a horse with a straw attic on top. Both lofts have overhead tracks and forks; the final wall is reinforced with a vertical reel.
The lower level of the warehouse, built on the side of a hill, serves as a milking spot. Two rows of buildings have room for 18 cow building, with room for 18 cows. The north-facing window provides light.
It is equipped with a dairy house east of the barn, upslope of the milking room. It is a two-story rectangular building with a pointy metal roof and a single door facing a shed. Inside, it has a concrete floor and an inground cooler.
Also around the barn is an ice house, chicken house and garage. The first is to the northwest, a one-and-a-half-story wooden building with a new side and no windows. It has a two-level metal door and a ventilator on the roof. The inner wall is marginalized but lacks insulation.
To the east is a chicken house, a two-story building on a stone foundation with a new roof and a metal roof. The northern end is a large perch area with windows facing down; second floor has a loft door. The garage, east of the barn along the entrance, is a concrete block structure encountered in imitation stone and topped with a metal hipped roof. It has two bi-fold doors with a glass top panel facing the driveway and a pair of windows at each end.
South warehouse, across the driveway, is the granary. It is a three-story building with vertical siding and a pointy metal roof. The north end of the saddle roof opens to allow access to the corn vats to the east, inside the striped walls with doors hung from above to help dry out, and other waste bins to the west. Charring from the fire shed is still on the inside of the roof beam. The entrance to the west with stairs provides other access.
A two-story frame lined with a curved iron roof lies to the south of the barn along the road. It has a novelty siding and a pair of entrances on the rope hinges facing the street. A line of windows stretched across the center of the northern saddle roof.
Among the houses and warehouses, the largest building is a circular shop. It is also a two-storey building with an angled saddle roof, but its sides are boarded up. A pair of hinged rope doors at the eastern end provide access to the pressure-holding room, with remnants of the original sari. Open the stairs along the western saddle tip to the circular shop upstairs with a work desk mounted by three large windows. Next to it, to the east of the upper floor, a large large storage area can also be accessed from the open attic door to the east.
Behind the circular shop is a pig house, a one-story salt-box building with metal roofs and boards-and-batten siding. Each of the many inner pens has a sliding hatch upward in the west and north is controlled from within with ropes and pulleys. To the north is an elevated bluestone terrace with stone retaining walls on the outside.
A single window and door facing the slaughterhouse, five feet (1.6 m) to the east. It is a heavy wooden frame building on a stone foundation with a wide-sequined roof and a standing metal stitching roof. Two doors on either side open into a room with the remains of a central brick fireplace and dispose of with a 3-foot (1 m) boiling pot.
The east building is a smoke house, a small square-shaped building on a stone foundation with boarded-up boards and wooden roofs shaking. It has a single rope bonded door. To the north is a two-seater house, a skeleton walled building beneath a pointy metal roof.
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History
Many farm lines were established in 1830 and have not varied since then. The first person to intensively use the property for agricultural purposes was James Terwilliger, who bought the farm around 1850 when he was in his mid-20s. Chances are he started as a subsistence farmer and built houses and most other buildings.
A stand-alone slaughterhouse is the only one in Ulster County. The hoop shop reflects the needs of subsistence farmers to engage in various trades and crafts to supplement their income. Special structures such as pig houses and chickens were established later in this century because such structures were developed to maximize yields and agriculture began to specialize.
It stayed in his family until Friend Smith bought farmland in 1919. He would build new warehouses, garages, flats, and ice sheds, reflecting the transition between local farmers from a wide variety of products to almost exclusively dairy farms, with railroads that allow them access to the New York City market. The farm has been past other owners since then, but almost no significant changes to the buildings are kept for the main board in the main house at the time listed on the National Register. Since then it has been removed, restoring the historic appearance of the house.
See also
- List of Historic Historic Sites in Ulster County, New York
References
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