Harmon Miller House
Property
The house is on the west side of the highway. It is on a small rise surrounded by trees in the middle of 42 acres (17 ha) of fields and meadows. Claverack Creek is on the south. Across the highway are some other homes; the center of Claverack is to the north. In addition to the house there is a small carriage barn to the south.
The house itself is a two-and-a-half-story, five-by-two-bay frame building on a brick foundation with a concave mansard roof covered in slate with an overhanging bracketed eave. A one-and-a-half-story side wing wraps around the south and west sides of the building.
On the east (front) facade, the main entrance is centrally located. Wood steps with a balustrade lead up to it, and consoles support a small sheltering hood. Above it is a double window with similar treatment. All the windows have cornices molded and flat on the first story, rounded on the second. The roof has three arched dormer windows, with the central one having a pair of windows.
The north facade has a projecting bay window in its easternmost bay. The two dormers on the roof have a chimney in the middle. The south side has a similar treatment without the chimney. Another bay window is on the rear next to the porch, with a flat bracketed roof supported by chamfered posts. There are three dormers on the upper level on this side.
The wing is similar to the main house in materials. It has a full-width enclosed porch on the west. A tower with four-segment window band and a similar slate-covered mansard roof, rises from the central bay. The east elevation, where the entrance is, has an open porch.
From the main entrance, paired doors with etched glass panels set in a segmental arched frame, there is a central hall with staircase. To its north is a large parlor with a small alcove in its rear wall. A kitchen in the wing has been enlarged into the enclosed porch. The second floor has its original floor plan, with some rooms enlarged. Walls have been removed from servants’ quarters in the attic to create one large space. Many original finishes survive, including the plaster, flooring, marble and wood mantelpieces and woodwork such as the walnut balustrade and newel on the main stair.
The carriage barn is sided in clapboard and topped with a slate mansard roof. Its east face has paired, arched entrances and a central round-arched dormer. It is considered a contributing resource to the Register listing.
History
Harmon Miller, a farmer who had built the land his father gave him at his 1854 wedding into 106 acres (43 ha) valued at $15,000 ($355,000 in contemporary dollars) by 1875, hired local architect and builder John McClure to erect Brookbound in 1878. The total cost was $5,366 ($118,089 in contemporary dollars) He lived there until his death in 1905; members of the family remained in the house until selling it to the present owners in 1980. It remains a private residence and has had little alteration save some changes to the porches.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia County, New York
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Naramore, Sally (January 1997). “National Register of Historic Places nomination, Harmon Miller House”. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=1504. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
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