Rhinebeck Village Historic District
| Rhinebeck Village Historic District | |||
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| location | Rhinebeck , New York | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 55 '36 " N , 73 ° 54' 45" W | ||
| surface | 68 ha | ||
| Built | 18th to early 20th century | ||
| NRHP number | 79001578 | ||
| The NRHP added | 1979 | ||
The Rhinebeck Village Historic District is a Historic District located on US 9 and NY 308 in Rhinebeck , New York State. It has an area of 167 acres (68 hectares ) and consists of 272 structures in a variety of architectural styles from over 200 years of local history . The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as a contiguous area of preserved historic buildings .
The properties in the historic district were largely built on between the colonial era and the end of the 19th century, when the district reached its present size. Three US presidents have left their mark on Rhinebeck, most notably Franklin D. Roosevelt , who selected the design for the new post office in the 1930s and spoke at the inauguration. It is one of the district's contributing properties . At present, the area is a local attraction and many of the homes are home to boutiques and other small shops. The streets are lined with large trees that provide shade.
geography
Because the district boundaries largely follow the boundaries of the parcels at their edge, the outlines of the district are very irregular. It is centrally located in the Village, with most of the properties falling in the residential areas northeast of the intersection of US-9 and NY-308.
Starting on Highway 9, the rear property lines along South Street, Crystal Lake and Landsman Kill to the eastern edge of the village form the southern boundary of the historic district. North of Route 30, the district boundary runs along the east side of Crosmour Drive until just before Starr Drive, because it jumps to the rear boundary of the properties along Crosmour Street, 308 State Road and Beech Street. On Chestnut Street, the district's border bends west and first runs on its south side, before half a block later it includes the houses on the north side.
The district boundary runs to the rear property lines on Montgomery Street (Route 9) and follows this to the point where State Route Street branches off from Montgomery at the Northern Dutchess Hospital. She then crosses the street to include the properties on the west side of Montgomery to West Market Street. It includes the north side of West Market Street to the western edge of the village and some of the properties on the south side, and then follows the rear boundary of the properties along Mill Street (Route 9) to directly north of the Astor Home for Children , where they find the Then cross the street and return to South Street.
Apart from the roads along which the district boundaries run, the district includes some other roads in whole or in part. Center Street and Livingston Streets are entirely within, and several blocks on Mulberry Street and North Parsonage Street are within the district boundaries.
The area of the historical district is well developed. The majority is residential, with some larger parcels at the most protruding points. Commercial use is concentrated on the tree-lined streets near the intersection of US Highway 9 and State Route 308. Larger operations are east of the intersection, with small storefronts stretching several blocks along East Market Street (Route 308). Institutional use takes place in the district through three churches, the town hall and the village hall and the fire station. All buildings date from the 19th and early 20th centuries and represent a number of architectural styles from the period, from the Colonial to the Colonial Revival .
history
European settlers were settling in the Rhinebeck area as early as 1686 when a group of Dutch came across the river from Kingston and bought 2200 acres of land from local Iroquois tribes . The name Rhinebeck is a combination of the name of the man who founded the city, Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707) and the name of the river Rhine on whose shores Beekman was born and raised. Beekman was one of the original owners of the area that became Beekmantown .
Later, the son of Wilhelmus Beekman, Henry Beekman (1652-1716), received a patent for the land and recognized the need to advance the development. The Town of Beekman in Dutchess County is named after Henry Beekman, who had a land grant there in 1703. He brought the miller Caspar Landsman and the builder William Traphagen to the area.
In 1703, the New York Colonial Assembly approved funding for the construction of King's Highway, later known as Albany Post Road , much of what is now Highway 9. Three years later, Traphagen acquired a tract of land in Beekman's patent where the King's Highway crossed the Sepasco Indian Trail , on what is now Market Street. He built a house and a tavern on this trail a short distance west of the King's Highway. That was the nucleus of Rhinebeck.
A decade later, in 1715, Beekman's son brought 35 emigrants from the Palatinate here who were persecuted for religious reasons in their homeland and who had just tried to produce pine resin for the British on the land of Robert Livingston further north in what is now Columbia County . The village grew with the newcomers. New traders settled themselves, and in 1733 the Reformed Dutch Church built their first church on the site of the current structure at the intersection of Mill Street and South Street. In 1766, the beginning of the Beekman Inn, which still exists today, was built, and has since operated continuously as an inn and hotel.
In the mid-1770s, soldier Richard Montgomery moved to the village with his new wife, who was a member of the Livingston family. He had just started making a living as a farmer when the revolution started. After he was elected to the New York Provincial Congress , he was appointed a general in the Continental Army ; Montgomery fell in the Battle of Quebec in late 1775 . His cottage still stands today, but has been moved to 77 Livingston Street, where it is used by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ; the street where it originally stood was later named in his memory.
After the declaration of independence , the village continued to grow; the Town of Rhinebeck , which contains the Village, was organized in 1788. In 1802 the still existing Dutch Reformed Church was built; it is the oldest church building in the village. The current course of East Market Street was laid out in the same year that the Ulster-Saulsbury Turnpike, later State Route 308, was built.
Rhinebeck continued to attract politicians. George Washington came in 1796 eating at an inn when he was staying at a friend's house nearby. During the gubernatorial elections in 1804, both Aaron Burr and Morgan Lewis used restaurants in Rhinebeck as headquarters for their campaigns.
Rhinbecke was incorporated as Village in 1834. Ten years later, Alexander Jackson Davis built the Henry Delamater House at 44 Montgomery Street. The building that still exists today is one of the best-preserved examples of the early use of Gothic Revival in American residential architecture.
Until the 1850s, Rhinebeck had grown even further and had earned a reputation as a center for wood processing . The name of the city on products sawn here was a symbol of quality, and the furniture made here was sold over long distances, even as far as South Carolina . It was said that local production was unrivaled in the manufacture of wagons, carriages and sleighs . Some clothing manufacturers also achieved nationally recognized reputations. The area also gained a reputation as a preferred site for the mansions of the Gilded Age rich .
In the late 1880s, Levi P. Morton , a former congressman and ambassador to France, lived in Bois Dore on Mill Street. Benjamin Harrison had him as his candidate for the post of Vice President in the presidential election in 1888 for the Republicans made, and Harrison attended Morton in Rhinebeck, when it was revealed that the two had just been elected. Morton was later still governor of New York.
The end of the 19th century brought a new industry to Rhinebeck: the cultivation of violets . Around 20% of the population was in some way involved in this business during the Gay Nineties , and it is estimated that sales exceeded $ 1 million in some years. Several of the houses built during this period still exist and are located within the historic district.
A map of the village from 1890 shows its extent almost coinciding with today's historic district. This area is still largely as it was then. A third US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt , who at the nearby Hyde Park was born, played a role in the history of the city towards the end of the Great Depression when he selection of the draft design for the new post office organized. He had advocated the Dutch style for a long time, using fieldstone as a building material for public buildings in the area, and he instructed the architects to use Henry Beekman's house (which burned down in 1910) as a model for their design and some of the remaining stones to use for construction.
Monument preservation
The development plans for the Village of Rhinebeck create an area along Highway 9 extending beyond the historic district in order to preserve the historic character in this part of the historic district as this is the most visible part to visitors to the city. It is required that all new buildings in residential areas have the appearance of a stand-alone residential building, and that commercial buildings in the area are not operated in a manner in which commercial use dominates the appearance.
In the current draft of the master plan , Village and Town advocate preserving historical resources in the community through a historical district and establishing a formal review process to ensure that new construction and renovation are non-intrusive. The plan mandates the town to make an inventory of all known historic sites in the town and to nominate any eligible building that is not yet on the National Register and its state-level equivalent.
supporting documents
- ^ Marilyn Hatch: Rhinebeck Village Walking Tour . Archived from the original on January 7, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 4. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Henry Gannett: The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States . US Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 1905, pp. 41, 261.
- ^ Morse, Howard: Historic Old Rhinebeck (Rhinebeck, NY: Privately printed, 1908), p. 25, cited in Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p 41. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 41. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 42. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 46. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Town and Village of Rhinebeck, Draft Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 12, Historic and Cultural Resources . Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 3, 2009. June 13, 2008; Retrieved June 3, 2009.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 48. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , pp. 41–42. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Morse, Howard: Historic Old Rhinebeck (Rhinebeck, NY: Privately printed, 1908), pp. 292-4, quoted in Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , P. 48. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 43. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , p. 44. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Sharp, L. Corwin (February 14, 1979): National Register of Historic Places nomination, Rhinebeck Village Historic District , pp. 43-4. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
- ^ Village of Rhinebeck Code, Chapter 120, Article VI.
