{"nrhp_refnum":"00001420","name":"Bloomer-Dailey House and Balmville Tree","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"83 Balmville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Balmville","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.53263048500003,"lon":-74.01246785799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-eighteenth century wood-frame dwelling at 83 Balmville Road in the hamlet of Balmville, town of Newburgh, Orange County, New York, together with the adjacent Balmville Tree on a tiny triangular parcel at a road intersection. The house dates to about 1750 and was renovated in 1914.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a rare surviving eighteenth century dwelling in Balmville and an outstanding local example of Colonial Revival alteration, carried out in 1914. The Balmville Tree, dated by coring to 1699, is a community icon that gave the hamlet its name and has long been associated with the house's setting. Together they link the hamlet's earliest settlement era with early twentieth century interest in colonial history.","narrative":"At the center of the crossroads hamlet of Balmville, just north of Newburgh, stands a small clapboard house whose core dates to about 1750. It began as a one-and-one-half story, three-bay timber-frame cottage with a side-hall plan, and later gained nineteenth century wings and a 1932 addition. In 1914 John Staples renovated it in the Colonial Revival style, adding a porch and central dormer and converting a nineteenth century outbuilding into a matching garage. Inside, the original heavy timber frame, cooking fireplace with iron crane and beamed ceilings survive. Beside the house, at the meeting of Balmville, River and Commonwealth Roads, grows the Balmville Tree, an Eastern Cottonwood dated by coring to 1699 and long mistaken for a Balm of Gilead. Both resources were listed for their architecture, their role in the hamlet's settlement history, and the tree's status as the namesake local landmark. The house is the only building surviving from the pre-Revolutionary hamlet.","period_of_significance":"ca.1750","architect_builder":"John Staples (1914 renovation)","architectural_style":"Colonial; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single-family dwelling; the house retains its early core and 1914 Colonial Revival alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.519495-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00001420.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001420/5f48bcab84-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001420/5f48bcab84-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stump_of_Balmville_Tree,_August_2015.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Stump_of_Balmville_Tree,_August_2015.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320578","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmville_Tree","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48462521"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/bloomer-dailey-house-and-balmville-tree-00001420/"}