Benjamin Ten Broeck House
The Benjamin Ten Broeck House , also known as Felten Ten Broeck Chmura House known is a residential building at Flatbush Road ( New York State Route 32 ) in the Town of Ulster north of Kingston , New York in the United States. It's a stone house that was built in three stages in the years before the American Revolution .
The builder was Benjamin Ten Broeck, a wealthy landowner, on whose land it was built. It was used to accommodate his servants. Since his building was demolished, the house is the only remnant of his property. The design of the building is largely of Dutch origin, but the design of the kitchen suggests that the house was inhabited by Palatinate immigrants. Vandalism and theft have resulted in some of the original interior design being lost, but overall the historical integrity of the building has been preserved. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
building
The home is on 0.54 acre lot on the east side of Flatbush Road just south of the ramps to New York State Route 199 and the western approach to Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge . Most of the area consists of fields and wooded land, with a few more houses about 500 meters south on the same side of Flatbush Road. The house is about 60 meters from the road, from which it is shielded by tall trees. An unpaved driveway leads from the street to the house, where it ends at a small roundabout.
The building is a one and a half story structure made of broken limestone blocks that are whitewashed. The gable roof is covered with shingles made of roofing felt, the gable triangles are clad with wooden shingles. There are two brick chimneys on the roof and two dormer windows in the middle of the southern roof side .
The front of the house reflects the three phases of building the house. At the eastern end there is a porch with a half-roof and the main entrance. In the middle part there are two sliding windows, each with twelve slug panes, a pair of smaller windows is followed by a side entrance at the western end. All windows have solid shutters painted in green and red. There are two windows on the west side, one per floor, and twice as many windows to the east. At the rear of the house, facing north, there are only two windows at the western end and in the middle.
Each section of the building was formed inside by an open space. The middle part has been divided into smaller rooms and the level of the east part is slightly lower than the rest of the house. The parts of the building in the east and the middle have open chimneys, the latter with a Georgian chimney cladding. Exposed ceiling beams support the attic above. The western and middle part of the house are connected by a board door with wrought iron hinge and fittings.
history
1751–1770: original structure
Benjamin Ten Broeck I, who had the house built, was the great-grandson of Wessel Ten Broeck, who came to the Nieuw Nederland colony with Peter Minuit in 1626 . Ten Broeck built his first residence, which was later demolished, on the property in 1748, on which he had the first part of the house built three years later, which was to serve as an apartment for the farmers on his land. A family named Felten, probably the descendants of immigrants who fled the Palatinate at the beginning of the 18th century, were the first residents.
Ten Broeck built the house in the style of Dutch anonymous architecture , as used by the Dutch settlers in the area. This also included an open, post-free hearth in the center of the room that was used for cooking and heating. This part of the building was later divided. The western section of the house was built in the second phase of construction in 1765 and continued the Dutch style.
The installation of changeable beams on the western wall suggests that the original construction plan included an open hearth on this side as well, but there is no such foundation. Because of this, it is more likely that the plan was changed during construction to make way for a cast iron stove on a brick plinth that was heated with coal. This arrangement is typical of the houses of German immigrants of the time and indicates that the residents of the house were of this origin.
In the last phase, the eastern part of the building was probably built around 1770; However, the style of the contemporary additions in the middle section also suggests that it could be made by 1790 at the latest. The change in the open fireplace in the middle section was probably the result of using the new wing as a kitchen.
1777 – present: renovations and maintenance
In 1777, British ships fired on Ten Broeck House on the Hudson River when Kingston was burned to the ground. The family took refuge in the farmhouse while the main house was being repaired.
After the revolution, most of the property remained in the ownership of the Ten Broeck family, and this did not change until the beginning of the 20th century. However, it is not certain whether the family continued to live on the property. According to one version, Elizabeth Maraquat, the granddaughter of Benjamin Ten Broeck I, lived in the main house until 1820, the earliest document documenting the owner of the land dates from 1803 and states that it was from a Johannis Snyder from Kingston to William Prince from Fairfield County , Connecticut . Snyder, who according to the document lived on the property at the time, is believed to be Maria Felten's younger brother. From this it can be concluded that the previous tenants had already become owners of the property at the time.
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The main house was demolished in 1904, so that the tenant house is the only remnant of the once large manor tenant house. In 1936 the house was documented for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). The photo documentation shows that the house was not yet surrounded by trees.
A few years later, in 1939, the house was visited by a Kingston antique dealer. He collected artifacts for the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, and managed to swap one of the original windows for a historical replica. He also wanted to buy the inner door, but the farmer Steven Chmura, who owned the house at the time, refused.
Since then, when the house was vacant, it was often the subject of theft and vandalism when the owner changed. In this way the original shutters and the door between the central part and the western wing of the house were lost. Around 1990 the western door was bricked up and the floorboards were replaced by similarly designed new wood. The current owner also had to have the window frames replaced.
See also
supporting documents
- ^ A b c d e f g William Krattinger: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Benjamin Ten Broeck House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . May 2005. Archived from the original on October 1st, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ↑ Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture newsletter ( English ) Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture. November 2004. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
Coordinates: 41 ° 58 ′ 33 " N , 73 ° 58 ′ 12" W.