Claverack Free Library
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Claverack Free Library
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Portion of south elevation, 2008
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| Location | Claverack, NY |
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| Nearest city | Hudson |
| Coordinates | 42°13′21″N 73°44′7″W / 42.22250°N 73.73528°WCoordinates: 42°13′21″N 73°44′7″W / 42.22250°N 73.73528°W |
| Built | 1932 |
| Architect | Lucius Moore |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | The Architectural and Historic Resources of the Hamlet of Claverack, Columbia County, New York |
| NRHP Reference # | 97001624 |
| Added to NRHP | 1998 |
The Claverack Free Library is located on NY 23B near the center of the hamlet of Claverack, New York, United States. It is a small Colonial Revival building constructed in the early 1930s from a design by local architect Lucius Moore.
The library itself formally dates to 1891. It had been in several buildings before the expansion of nearby NY 9H forced it to move a short distance west to its current building. In 1998 the library building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The library is located on the north side of Route 23B, a short distance west of Route 9H. A row of mature trees screen the building from the latter highway. An unpaved driveway on the west leads to parking in the rear. A firehouse is located to the north, and a small former elementary school to the west. A gas station is across the road.
The building itself is a single-story, three-bay frame structure on a concrete foundation sided in beaded wideboard and topped with a gabled roof shingled in wood pierced by a brick chimney at the west end. A single-story frame wing is on the west elevation.
Two small brick steps lead to the main entrance in the center of the south (front) facade. It is sheltered by a porch with a pair of Ionic columns supporting an entablature and pediment. The paneled main door is flanked by glass sidelights and topped with a transom. The two windows on either side bay have paneled green shutters.
The east facade has a Palladian window topped by an attic vent. There are three evenly spaced windows on the north (rear) elevation. The west wing, slightly offset from the front, has three windows on the south side and one on the west with similar treatments to the front of the main block.
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