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Smith-Ripley House, also known as Ripley House Museum, is a historic home located at Adams in
Jefferson County, New York Jefferson County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 116,721. Its county seat is Watertown. The county is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United St ...
. It was built in 1854 and is a two-story
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
style house with an 1883 two-story addition in the southeast corner and a 1967 one story addition in the rear. Sitting on a stone foundation, the main block is three bays wide and three bays deep. The exterior is red brick construction with the exception of the wood 1967 addition. Also on the property is a
carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open ...
dating to 1854. ''See also:'' It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2008.


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Ripley House Museum
- Historical Association of South Jefferson Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic house museums in New York (state) Georgian architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1854 Historical society museums in New York (state) Museums in Jefferson County, New York Houses in Jefferson County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, New York {{NewYork-museum-stub