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21. A. Willis House
40 Church Street
ca.1852
A two-story frame house designed in a transitional Greek
Revival/Gothic Revival style. The building rests on a rubble stone
foundation and is sheathed with clapboard siding. The house is
covered by steeply pitched, decorative metal shingle-clad gabled
roof. The broad eaves of the main block of the dwelling are
supported by ornate brackets and enlivened with scroll sawn verge
boards. Windows throughout the house feature a variety of sash
types. These include double-hung, two-over-two light sash with
distinctive pointed casement sash set within pointed arched
surrounds in the gables and dormers.
The
Alexander Willis House is a historic Greek Revival frame home at 40
Church Street in Coeymans, New York, built around 1852 by Alexander
E. Willis (1812-1895). Willis, originally from Rensselaer County,
married Ariaantje "Harriet" Blaisdell in 1841 and settled in
Coeymans, where the family became connected to prominent local
agricultural and river-trade networks.
The house reflects mid-19th-century Hudson Valley rural
architecture, featuring clapboard siding, a gabled roof, central
hall layout, stone foundation, and a contributing carriage house. It
served as the Willis family residence during Coeymans Landing's
economic growth tied to farming, milling, shipping, and Hudson River
commerce.
The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 2004 for its architectural significance and preservation of
vernacular Greek Revival design. It remains privately owned and is
recognized as one of Coeymans' important surviving historic homes.
