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Muldor-Miller House

house in Claverack, New York

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ116412772 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Muldor-Miller House is a historic stone farmhouse located in Claverack, Columbia County, New York, United States.

Description and history

Built c.1790, it has "unusual stone construction" and "is a rare surviving example of an early house in Claverack."

It is Federal and Greek Revival in style.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Muldor-Miller House” is house in Claverack, New York. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Muldor-Miller, House and house, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1790, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1790. For this dossier, Muldor-Miller, House and house is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116412772. Authority coordinates are 42.223, -73.741. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1790 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Muldor-Miller House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.