WordNet
n. a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice)
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The Glebe House is an 18th-century Georgian stone building in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, USA. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982.
The name "Glebe House" refers to the glebe, an area of land the proceeds of which supported the parish and its minister. The land associated with Glebe House was about 1 square kilometre (250 acres) in size.
The Glebe House itself was constructed in 1767 as a Georgian red brick building on a rubble stone foundation. It was to serve rectory for The Reverend John Beardsley, who ministered at Christ Church, Poughkeepsie and Trinity Church in Fishkill, and his family in 1767. Since Beardsley was a Loyalist, he and his entire household were forced to flee to New York City in December 1777 to seek protection of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
After 1777, the house and the land passed through many hands. During this time, it housed a public beer garden and later a florist business. In the early 19th century, an addition to the building was made by Peter De Reimer. In 1929, the house and the remainder of the glebe land (now less than 1 acre) were purchased by members of the Dutchess County Historical Society and the Junior League to protect it from demolition. The house was given to the City of Poughkeepsie to be operated jointly by the Dutchess County Historical Society and the Junior League.
The Dutchess County Historical Society offers tours of Glebe House on Sunday afternoons from June through October.
Glebe House may refer to:
in England- Glebe House School, Hunstanton, Norfolk
- Glebe House and Gallery, a museum in Letterkenny, County Donegal
- Glebe House (Woodbury, Connecticut), listed on the NRHP in Litchfield County, Connecticut
- Glebe House (New Castle, Delaware)
- Glebe House (Princess Anne, Maryland)
- Glebe House (Poughkeepsie, New York)
- The Glebe (Arlington, Virginia)
- Abingdon Glebe House, Gloucester, Virginia
- Glebe House of Southwark Parish, Spring Grove, Virginia
- Glebe House of St. Anne's Parish, Champlain, Virginia
Glebe House is a historic home located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1821 and 1823 as the glebe house of the rector of Immanuel Church. The house consists of three sections, all brick: a 2 1/2-story plus attic, three bay section; a lower middle section of three bays with a shed roof; and a north section comprising the original kitchen.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The Glebe House, also known as Davis's Choice, Turner's Purchase, and incorrectly as the Samuel Chase House, is a historic house at 10950 Market Lane in Princess Anne, Maryland. The 1.5 story house was built in 1784 and is a rare instance of an 18th century brick-ender, a building form that was once common on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The house has three wood frame walls, and the fourth is of brick laid in Flemish bond with a projecting water table. The house was substantially altered in the 1920s when its roof was raised and a second story was added, but this work was undone when the house underwent restoration around the turn of the 21st century. It was long thought to be of greater age, and the childhood home or birthplace of Samuel Chase, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, but documentary research has shown these connections to be incorrect.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Usage examples of "glebe house".
And a long couch like the one he had seen at the Old Glebe House, where Lowenna had sat for Montagu’.
As soon as the state of the colony admitted, it was divided into parishes, in each of which was established a minister of the Anglican church, endowed with a fixed salary, in tobacco, a glebe house and land with the other necessary appendages.