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Amsterdam Castle –\u00a0 Amsterdam NY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The first leg of the trip started in a castle.<\/p>\n Amsterdam Castle was built in 1895 by Isaac G. Perry in the castellated Late Victorian style as a National Guard Armory. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.<\/p>\n In 2005 the Phemister family purchased the building, and continued the extensive renovation.<\/p>\n Originally constructed with 18″ brick walls. the Phemister family’s extensive renovations rebuilt the interior with separate\u00a0environmentally friendly building materials\u00a0including\u00a0low-volatile organic compound paint\u00a0and\u00a0repurposed wood.<\/p>\n In 2012, the\u00a0Preservation League of NY\u00a0awarded the Susan & Manfred Phemister their\u00a0Excellence in Historic Preservation\u00a0Award.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_9985-768x1024.jpg\")
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