Belvidere (Belmont, New York)

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Belvidere, also called Villa Belvidere, is a historic house near Belmont in Allegany County, New York. It was built in 1804 from plans attributed to Benjamin Henry Latrobe and is a notable example of Federal architecture. The mansion was built for John Barker Church, an early settler and former English member of Parliament who was married to Angelica Schuyler Church, sister-in-law of Alexander Hamilton. The stone-and-brick house has a central block that is two and a half stories tall on a partial basement, plus a two-story-over-basement east wing and a one-and-a-half-story service wing. There are 30 rooms and 13 fireplaces. On the five-acre property are a nine-sided barn and a hexagonal tea house built in 1806. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.