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Salisbury Manor

Leeds, New York, listed on the NRHP

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7404784 ↗
Source-derived summary

Salisbury Manor is an historic 1730 farmhouse near Leeds, Greene County, New York.

The house was built by Francis Salisbury for his oldest son Abraham. The house was expanded in 1760 and 1823, leading to a mix of architectural styles.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for its architectural significance and representation of colonial era settlement. It is privately owned.

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“Salisbury Manor” enters the record as leeds, New York, listed on the NRHP. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Salisbury, Manor and Leeds can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1730, 1760, 1823, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Salisbury, Manor and Leeds.
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“Salisbury Manor” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Salisbury, Manor and Leeds provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7404784. Authority coordinates are 42.263, -73.919. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1730, 1760, 1823 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Salisbury Manor” 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.