The Glen Building is a historic commercial building located at Cape Vincent in

Jefferson County, New York Jefferson County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 116,721. Its county seat is Watertown. The county is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United St ...

Description and history

It is a two-story, L-shaped, wood-frame building with a low-pitched shed roof and

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

detailing. It was built in 1887 as a combination family home and business. A small detached paint shop is also on the property. It was listed on the

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on September 27, 1985.

References

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1887 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, New York Houses in Jefferson County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, New York {{JeffersonCountyNY-NRHP-stub