Irving Langmuir House | |
 Front elevation, 2008 | |
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 Interactive map showing the Langmuir House location | |
| Location | 1176 Stratford Road,Schenectady, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°48′55″N73°55′11″W / 42.8152°N 73.9196°W /42.8152; -73.9196 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | ca. 1900 (1900) |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| Part of | General Electric Realty Plot (ID80002763) |
| NRHP reference No. | 76001275 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 7, 1976[2] |
| Designated NHL | January 7, 1976[1] |
| Designated CP | November 18, 1980[2] |
TheIrving Langmuir House is a historic house at 1176 Stratford Road inSchenectady, New York. Built about 1900, it was the home of physicist-chemistIrving Langmuir, winner of the 1932Nobel Prize in Chemistry during his research career withGeneral Electric. It was declared aNational Historic Landmark in 1976.[1][3]
The Irving Langmuir House is located in the middle of a suburban area east ofUnion College known as theGeneral Electric Realty Plot, ahistoric district to which it is acontributing property. The neighborhood is residential, with large houses dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is located on the east side of Stratford Road, a short way north of Rugby Road. Architecturally, the house is unremarkable. It is a two-and-a-half-story building in avernacular interpretation of theColonial Revivalstyle. Thehipped roof istiled interra cotta and pierced by two almost symmetricaldormer windows. A columned porch covers the Palladian-style main entrance. The interior follows a basic central-hall plan.[3]
The house was probably built ca. 1900. In 1919 Langmuir moved in, living there until his death in 1957. It was still in his family's hands at the time of its landmark designation almost two decades later. Langmuir worked at GE's Schenectady research laboratory in 1909, where he performed basic research in a wide array of areas of physics and chemistry. He retired in 1950, having won numerous awards, most prominently the 1932Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work insurface chemistry.[3]
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