House at 37 Center Street
The House at 20 Center Street (formerly 37 Center Street ) is a residential building in Highland Falls , New York in the United States, which was built in the mid-19th century in a classicist style using timber frame construction. It is one of the few houses in this style and the most stylish in the Hudson Highlands . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 on behalf of a Multiple Property Submission .
building
The house is on the east side of Center Street, about half a block north of Mountain Avenue ( New York State Route 218 ) and one block west of central Highland Falls. To the north and south of the house are other houses, most of which date from the same period or were built earlier, but were modified during that time. On the west side of the road, the terrain rises to a sports field and then the Highland Falls Middle School. The house is on a small plot of land with a picket fence on the sidewalk.
The building itself is a two- and-a-half-story building spanning five by two bays with wooden floor paneling on a base made of field stones. It has a saddle roof , which is covered with shingles from tar paper and on the first one at both ends of the chimney of bricks sitting. On the front facing west is a veranda that runs the length of the building. The roof of the veranda is supported by decorative posts.
history
The house was first documented with the first letters BK on a map from 1875, these initials standing for the name of the then owner Bernard Kenney. The simple architectural decoration of the house, primarily only the window sills and lintels, is similar to that of other houses in the vicinity, which were built around 1850 or earlier. This is the oldest group of houses in Highland Falls. However, the house stands out because no other classicist house in the Hudson Highlands expresses the architectural style so perfectly.
The house has always been used for residential purposes since it was built and is still inhabited in 2010. It has hardly changed in its history. The picket fence on the front was added in 1982. The house number changed from 37 to 20 towards the end of the 20th century when houses on many streets in Orange County were given new house numbers to make emergency calls easier.
See also
supporting documents
- ↑ National Register Information System ( English ) In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Elise M. Barry: National Register of Historic Places Registration: House at 37 Center Street ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . April 1982. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. 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 28, 2010.
Coordinates: 41 ° 22 ′ 11 ″ N , 73 ° 58 ′ 3 ″ W.