The Bevier House is located on Bevier Road in Gardiner, New York, United States. It is a

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house built in the mid-19th century. It is one of the few remaining intact farmhouses in Gardiner from before the

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, with a decorative front facade and marbleized main staircase. In 1983 it was listed on the

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The house is located on a farmstead on the south side of Bevier Road a short distance from Albany Post Road (

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Route 9), just across from the

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near where it drains into the

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. The farmstead property is mostly open, with outbuildings to the south and west. The land alongside the Shawangunk is wooded. Structurally the house is a two-story five-by-three-

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building sided in

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with a

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d metal roof pierced by brick chimneys at the east and west ends. Two wings, one single-story and the other two, project from the south (rear) elevation. A porch with a flat metal roof runs across the middle three bays of the north facade. The roofline has overhanging

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s supported by paired

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with acorn pendants over a plain frieze. The porch roof has smaller, similar paired brackets, with its roof supported by square pillars with

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arches and diamond pendants run between them. The windows have plain surrounds with flat shutters and drip-

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friezes. A pilastered and recessed double-paneled glazed doorway in the center of the first floor leads to the central hall. The stairway is marbleized. The basement has exposed

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ceiling beams with a

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for the

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once there. The attic's

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framing is set at a wide angle and pegged without a ridge beam, a common practice in the middle of the 19th century. The two-story kitchen wing on the east has an early 20th-century kitchen on its second floor, with dry sink, hand pump and coal stove. Outbuildings start with a single-story gabled barn to the south with a shed addition on its west. A gabled

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is adjacent. To the northwest, just off the road, is a gabled barn with a

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roof becoming part of the gabled extension on the northeast. All are considered

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to the National Register listing.

History

In 1853, Abraham Bevier bought property described as being southwest of the Shawangunk Kill, with tenements, from Levi van Keuren. He is described as the owner on an atlas published that year and again in 1858, suggesting the house had been built a few years prior, just around 1850. The two south wings, the most significant changes to it, were added around 1917. It has remained a private residence ever since, although the accompanying farm property has been subdivided to the current parcel.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in New York Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York Houses completed in 1850 Gardiner, New York Houses in Ulster County, New York

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