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Winfield Corners Stone House

historic house in New York, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ8024994 ↗
Source-derived summary

Winfield Corners Stone House is a historic home located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, field stone house that is linear in plan with frame additions. It was built about 1732. The main house block has a central cross gable with a pair of flanking gable dormers.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Winfield Corners Stone House” is historic house in New York, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Winfield, Corners and Stone, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1732, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Winfield, Corners and Stone is the immediate research focus.
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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 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8024994. Authority coordinates are 41.822, -74.195. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1732 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Winfield Corners Stone 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.