English: The Van Cleef-Mynderse House, 86 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls, New York, December 2022. A contributing property to the NRHP-listed Seneca Falls Village Historic District, this two-story, 3,650-square-foot wood-framed residence was built in 1825 and is a good example of the then-popular Federal style of architecture: note its shallow-pitched side-gabled roof, scrupulous façadal symmetry, and the subtle but impressive Classical detailing around the front entrance: the door is framed first by a transom and sidelights laced with fancy iron tracery, then by a pair of Doric pilaster strips supporting a bracketed architrave. The house was built for and, most likely, by Lawrence Van Cleef (1755-1830), the first white settler in Seneca Falls and patriarch of one of the most prominent families in its history. A native of the Dutch enclave in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Van Cleef had first noted the area's agricultural and industrial potential while a participant in the Sullivan-Clinton campaign of 1779. He returned eight years later and, by the time this house was built, was the operator of a prosperous saw- and grist mill in the section of town known as The Flats, now submerged underneath the man-made Van Cleef Lake along with the waterfall that powered them and that gave the village its name. After his death, the property was inherited by his son-in-law Wilhelmus Mynderse (1767-1838), a fellow Dutch-American turned pioneer mill owner who also made a name for himself as a philanthropist: among his gifts to the community he helped found were the village park and the local high school, now known as Mynderse Academy. Mynderse lived in the house with his wife Jane until his own death eight years later. The house most recently operated as a bed & breakfast inn, and was listed for sale at the time this photograph was taken.