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The Benner House is located on Mill Street in the village of Rhinebeck, New York, United States, just off US 9. It was built by a German immigrant, Johannes Benner, in the 1730s. It is the oldest house in the Village of Rhinebeck. It is a rare example of a one-room-plan stone house in the Hudson Valley built to German traditions, rather than Dutch. It is the sole house with that floor plan remaining in Rhinebeck.〔 In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ==History== Johannes Benner/Bender emigrated to the Hudson Valley from Upper Bavaria with his parents and brother sometime in the early 18th century. Local tradition holds that he, or a member of his family, built the house around 1740,〔(Morse, Howard Holdridge. ''Historical Old Rhinebeck, Echoes of Two Centuries'', H.H. Morse, Rhinebeck, 1908 )〕 although no records have been found confirming this. Johannes Benner leased the land from Henry Beekman. It is further believed that the first meetings of the local Methodist church were held in the house half a century later, in 1791–92.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rhinebeckhistory.org/UMPR_InfoPage.htm )〕 The earliest deed known shows the house owned by an S.S. Myers in 1797.〔 By 1850, locally prominent landowners the Livingston family owned the house, using it as a support building for their nearby Grasmere estate. At one time it was believed to be a writing school. In 1874, Ann O' Brien purchased the house. She died in 1900, and the property passed to her son, Civil War Veteran, Thomas O' Brien. In 1946, Thomas O' Brien died. The Property then passed to his two daughters, Ann Gregory and Mary Sullivan. It later passed through several other owners into the late 20th century. Local Lore has it that the house was a stopping point for soldiers during the American Revolution. The October 26, 1929, edition of the ''Rhinebeck Gazette'' describes bins found in the top story or garret of the house. These were traditionally used to store grain out of the reach of pilfering Indians. However, there are more practical reasons that local grain was stored in the garret of the house. It was more secure from rodents in the barn and would have been a dryer atmosphere, because even when heat was not required, a fire for cooking was always burning in the fireplace. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benner House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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