43. Jonathan McElroy House
88 Main Street
ca.1830

A two-story, three-by-two bay late Federal style home with a contemporary two-by-one bay side wing and rear kitchen wing. The building is covered by gable roof with a fully pediment gable and modillion cornice. The gable is pierced with a pair of quarter-fan attic windows. Several six-over-six light sash survive throughout the building. The original side entry is now altered and sheltered by a small enclosed porch. The building is sheathed with vinyl siding.
 

In the spring of 1878, Levi Blaisdell 2 began preparations to replace the older barns on his Coeymans farm with what would become one of the most extraordinary agricultural structures ever built in Albany County. The immense new barn, measuring 60 by 100 feet at its limestone foundation, was entrusted to the hands of master carpenter and framer Jonathan McElroy of Coeymans, whose reputation for precision timber framing was already widely respected throughout the Hudson Valley.

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