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George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home

New York, US

George Westinghouse, Jr., Birthplace and Boyhood Home

The George Westinghouse Jr. Birthplace and Boyhood Home is a historic home located at Central Bridge in Schoharie County, New York. The property includes two 19th-century residences, two small barns, a well house and privy, as well as the site of a combined blacksmith shop and threshing machine work

s. The house where inventor George Westinghouse was born, built circa 1825, is a 1+1⁄2-story, rectangular frame residence in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1986.

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