Knower House Explained

Knower House
Location:757 NY 146, Altamont, New York
Coordinates:42.705°N -74.0196°W
Built:ca. 1800
Architecture:Early Republic
Added:November 10, 1982
Refnum:82001073

Knower House is a historic home located at Guilderland in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1800 and is a two-story frame house in the Georgian Colonial style. It accentuates a centroidal entrance and second story Palladian window. While occupied by Benjamin Knower, future New York Governor William L. Marcy married Cornelia Knower at the house in 1824.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Town of Guilderland . Building-Structure Inventory: Knower House (Building #29) . June 1979 . 2010-10-04 . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.