Meadows Farm Complex
historic house in New York, United States
Meadows Farm Complex is a historic home and farm complex located at Cazenovia in Madison County, New York. The Meadows farmhouse was built about 1900 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, L-shaped frame residence with restrained Queen Anne–style detailing. The Meadows guesthouse was built about 1815 in a rural vernacular Federal style. Also on the property are two barns, shed, smokehouse, well, and machine shed.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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