Rosendale Common School, also known as Niskayuna Grange Hall No. 1542, is a historic school

School

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 building located in the vicinity of Niskayuna in Schenectady County, New York

Schenectady County, New York

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. It was built about 1850 and is a -story, three-by-five-bay, timber-frame building on a limestone

Limestone

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 foundation. It has a steeply pitched gable roof and a one-story, shed-roof addition from the 1960s. The building was used as a school until 1948, when it was sold to the local Grange for use as their clubhouse

Clubhouse

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2010.