Mulrien House
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Mulrien House is a historic home located at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York
. It was built in 1862 and is a -story, Gothic Revival
–style dwelling with a steeply pitched, slate
-covered cross gable roof. It features curved and cut-out bargeboard
with ornamentation and a small balcony over the front door.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488...
. It was built in 1862 and is a -story, Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
–style dwelling with a steeply pitched, slate
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...
-covered cross gable roof. It features curved and cut-out bargeboard
Bargeboard
Bargeboard is a board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give them strength and to mask, hide and protect the otherwise exposed end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof to which they were attached...
with ornamentation and a small balcony over the front door.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1982.