Ames Academy Building | |
Location: | 611 Latimer Hill Rd., Ames, New York |
Coordinates: | 42.8369°N -74.6°W |
Built: | 1835 |
Architecture: | Federal |
Added: | January 24, 2002 |
Refnum: | 01001496 |
Ames Academy Building is a historic school building located at Ames, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1835 and is a two-story, rectangular, gable roofed, stone masonry building five bays long and two bays wide. The walls are constructed of cut limestone blocks. The Ames Academy received a charter from the New York State Board of Regents on February 5, 1839. It was used as a school until 1959. Since 1987 it has housed a local history museum.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.