Huguenot Street Historic District
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| Huguenot Street Historic District | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | New Paltz, NY |
| Nearest city: | Kingston, New York |
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| Area: | 95 acres (38 ha) |
| Built/Founded: | late 1600s |
| Added to NRHP: | 1966 |
| Governing body: | Huguenot Historical Society |
The Huguenot Street Historic District is located along that street in New Paltz, New York. The seven stone houses and three accompanying structures in the district were built in the late 17th century by Huguenot settlers fleeing religious persecution in France and Belgium. They have been in use ever since, making the street the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood in the current United States of America. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1966, and has since also achieved National Historic Landmark status.
The Huguenot Historical Society owns and operates the buildings and an adjacent visitors' center. Three houses that are Registered Historic Places in their own right — the Bevier-Elting House, Jean Hasbrouck and Daniel Hasbrouck — have been furnished to appear exactly as they did in the early 1700s and are open for tours.
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[edit] Individual houses
[edit] Bevier-Elting House
Originally a one-room building when it was first built in the early 1700s, two expansions were built later. A small subbasement housed African slaves. The house is open for tours today.
[edit] Abraham (Daniel) Hasbrouck House
Daniel Hasbrouck, son of original settler Abraham, began this house in 1721. Like the Bevier-Elting House, it began as a single-room structure and was later expanded. The north end has an upper chamber over a cellar kitchen. This house is used today to interpret Dutch architecture and colonial life in the Hudson Valley.
[edit] Jean Hasbrouck House
Also built in 1721, by Jean's son Jacob, this home is an excellent example of Hudson Valley Dutch architecture and the showpiece of the historic district. It boasts the only remaining jambless fireplace of any of the Hasbrouck Street houses.
In 2006 considerable work was done on the north wall to stabilize the building.
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