Belcher Family Homestead and Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at
Berkshire in
Tioga County, New York
Tioga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,455. Its county seat is Owego. Its name derives from an American Indian word meaning "at the forks", describing a meeting place.
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. The farmhouse is a two-story, five-bay frame house built about 1850 in a vernacular
Gothic Revival style with a porch with
Carpenter Gothic
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details. A second house, a -story, five-bay frame structure, was built about 1815 in a vernacular
Federal
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style. Also on the property is a mid-19th-century barn, a late 19th-century dairy barn with
silo, and a small shed.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Federal architecture in New York (state)
Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Tioga County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Tioga County, New York
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