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The Wilbor House

in Chatham, New York

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7774823 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wilbor House, also known as The Thompson Farm, is a historic home located at Old Chatham in Columbia County, New York. It was built in around 1790 and is a two-story, five by two bay, heavy timber frame dwelling on a raised fieldstone foundation. It is topped by a medium pitched gable roof. The house has a one-and-one-half-story wing, with a single-story wing extended from it.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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The public source identifies “The Wilbor House” as in Chatham, New York. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wilbor, House and Chatham.

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—1790, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wilbor, House and Chatham providing the first useful test.
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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 Q7774823. Authority coordinates are 42.445, -73.560. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1790 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Wilbor 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.