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Nowland House

historic house in New York, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7066809 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nowland House is a historic home located at Newark Valley in Tioga County, New York, United States. The two story, cross gabled frame house was constructed about 1868 and exhibits characteristics of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. It is essentially T-shaped in plan and features two porches. Also on the property are a garage and chicken house / feed shed.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nowland House” as historic house in New York, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1868, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nowland, House and historic can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as historic house in New York, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7066809. Authority coordinates are 42.219, -76.187. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1868 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nowland 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.