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Crane House In Hudson Valley Among 20 Sites Declared Historic By Cuomo Crane House In Hudson Valley Among 20 Sites Declared Historic By Cuomo
Crane House In Hudson Valley Among 20 Sites Declared Historic By Cuomo Middletown's Crane House made Gov. Andrew Cuomo's statewide list of 20 recommended historic sites. The nominations reflect the striking diversity of New York's history and include a covert FBI radio transmission station, a landmark in aviation history now used as a community college, and a facility used in the transmission of electricity from Niagara Falls to Buffalo in the early 1900s. Crane House is a Queen Anne-style home built in 1897 by the Crane family, which operated a prosperous dairy farm at the site into the 1930s. "This administration is committed to helping communities pre…