Senate House State Historic Site
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Senate House
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North elevation, 2007
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| Location: | Kingston, NY |
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| Coordinates: | 41°56′6.28″N 74°1′8.8″W / 41.9350778°N 74.019111°WCoordinates: 41°56′6.28″N 74°1′8.8″W / 41.9350778°N 74.019111°W |
| Built: | 1676 |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Architectural style: | Dutch Colonial |
| Governing body: | New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |
| Part of: | Kingston Stockade District |
| NRHP Reference#: | 71000564[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | August 12, 1971 |
The Senate House State Historic Site is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. New York state was established there in 1777, during the Revolutionary War. After a month, the Senate fled the British troops who were advancing from Manhattan. The Senate house and much of Kingston was burned in retribution. It has served as a museum from the late 19th century. Currently it is owned and operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
In 1971 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the first actual building in Kingston listed. It was, at that time, a contributing property to the small Clinton Avenue Historic District. Four years later, in 1975, the original district was replaced with the larger Kingston Stockade District, which retained the Senate House and all the other properties of the original district.
The house first belonged to Wessel Wesselse Ten Broeck, born about 1636, who emigrated to New Amsterdam from Wessen, in Westphalia in 1659. It is generally described as having been built in 1676, but can be certainly dated to some time before his death in 1704[2]. The ground floor of the house consists of three rooms, lined up along the street, with an entrance hallway between two of the rooms. As is typical of early Dutch houses in the Hudson Valley, the house is of stone, with the exception of the rear wall which is brick, laid in Flemish bond. At the back is a kitchen wing, added early, but somewhat later than the original construction.
[edit] See also
- List of New York State Historic Sites
- List of the oldest buildings in New York
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Ulster County, New York
[edit] References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley Before 1776, Payson and Clarke Ltd. for the Holland Society of New York, 1929. Reprinted by Dover Publications Inc. 1965. pp. 219-221
[edit] External links
- Senate House, Kingston, Ulster, NY: 3 photos, 1 data page, and supplemental material at Historic American Building Survey
- Senate House State Historic Site at NYSOPRHP
- Senate House in Kingston
- Wildernet information about Senate House
- Archeology at the Senate House
- Historic district contributing properties
- National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York
- New York state historic sites
- Museums in Ulster County, New York
- History museums in New York
- New York in the American Revolution
- American Revolutionary War sites
- Buildings and structures completed in 1676
- Kingston, New York
- Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register
