{"nrhp_refnum":"00000746","name":"Old Town Cemetery and Palatine Church Site","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Grand St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newburgh","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.50768325700005,"lon":-74.00969546699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2.8-acre district in Newburgh, Orange County, New York, made up of an 18th-century burial ground and the site of the Palatine church. It lies between Grand and Liberty Streets and is enclosed by a wrought iron fence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only intact portion of the original 1708-9 Palatine settlement of Newburgh and the site of the Palatine church, built in the 1730s. It also holds an intact 18th-century burial ground with a wide range of funerary art, including work attributed to master carver Simian Utter and the Egyptian Revival Robinson Mausoleum of 1853.","narrative":"Old Town Cemetery and the Palatine church site occupy about 2.8 acres in northern Newburgh, New York. The L-shaped property is enclosed by a wrought iron fence put up by the city in 1886. It was once part of the Glebe, land set aside under the 1714 Palatine patent for a minister and schoolmaster, and it is the only intact portion of that original settlement. A timber frame church about twenty feet square was built there in the 1730s and closed in 1749. The cemetery holds an estimated 2,600 burials and about 1,240 surviving markers dating from roughly 1740 to 1950. They include winged death's heads, soul effigies, three-lobed sandstone tablets, Neoclassical motifs and plain marble slabs, some attributed to carver Simian Utter. The Egyptian Revival Robinson Mausoleum, built in 1853 for Captain Henry Robinson, is a rare early example of its type. Together these features record the area's settlement and changing burial customs.","period_of_significance":"ca.1710-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the city of Newburgh and undergoing restoration; the Palatine church no longer stands but its archeological potential is described as high.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.024269-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000746.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000746/c59ec8cdf8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000746/c59ec8cdf8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Town_Cemetery,_Newburgh,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Town_Cemetery,_Newburgh,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85002426","name":"East End Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/east-end-historic-district-85002426/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320710","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Cemetery_(Newburgh,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085274"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/old-town-cemetery-and-palatine-church-site-00000746/"}