{"nrhp_refnum":"03000603","name":"Forsyth, James and Mary, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31 Albany Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.93293733200005,"lon":-74.01437553099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story Italianate brick house at 31 Albany Avenue, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, designed by architect Richard Upjohn and built around 1849-1850 for James and Mary Forsyth.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant in architecture as a surviving domestic work by Richard Upjohn, a prominent architect known mainly for Gothic Revival churches who also favored the Italianate style for houses. The building keeps much of its original plan and many period finishes despite changes around 1900 and 1939.","narrative":"Standing on the north side of Albany Avenue just southeast of Kingston's Stockade area, this two-and-one-half story brick house was built around 1849-1850 for lawyer and local politician James Forsyth and his wife Mary. Richard Upjohn, better known for Gothic Revival churches such as Trinity Church in New York City, designed it in the Italianate style. It has load-bearing red brick walls, a limestone foundation, bracketed wooden cornices and pedimented window hoods. Colonial Revival porches were added around 1900, and about 1939 a Masonic chapter turned much of the second floor into a large meeting room. The first floor and basement still follow Upjohn's plan, with marble mantelpieces, parquet floors, original doors and hardware, and an 1864 cast-iron kitchen range. The house was listed for its architecture, as a rare domestic example of Upjohn's work with an intact interior. It is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1849-c. 1939","architect_builder":"Richard Upjohn (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant; the second floor was converted to a Masonic meeting room around 1939.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.210234-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000603.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000603/7402564ea7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000603/7402564ea7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_and_Mary_Forsyth_House,_Kingston,_NY.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:James_and_Mary_Forsyth_House,_Kingston,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322618","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_and_Mary_Forsyth_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1681338"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/forsyth-james-and-mary-house-03000603/"}