{"nrhp_refnum":"05000015","name":"Palen, Frank A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"74-76 St. James St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.930640717000074,"lon":-74.01438676599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story single-family house at 74-76 St. James Street in the midtown section of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, built in 1892 for businessman Frank A. Palen.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a highly intact example of Late Victorian residential design, mixing Colonial Revival and Shingle Style elements, with original interior finishes largely preserved. It is also tied to Frank A. Palen, president of the H.W. Palen and Sons building supply firm, whose home showed off the family business's products and standing in Kingston.","narrative":"This two-and-one-half story house at 74-76 St. James Street in Kingston, New York, was built in 1892 for Frank A. Palen, a local businessman. It combines Colonial Revival and Shingle Style features on a bluestone base, with quarry-faced bluestone walls on the first story and wood framing and shakes above. A broad front-facing gable, a verandah with Tuscan columns, a rounded corner bay and a Palladian window mark the street front. Inside, plaster walls, parquet floors, stained woodwork, mantels and stained glass survive largely from the original construction. Palen served as president of H.W. Palen and Sons Builders Supply, a firm founded by his father that sold lumber, brick, cement, glass and millwork and supplied much of the area's building trade. The house was seen as a statement of his success and of the quality of the family's products. It is valued for its architecture, its high integrity and its link to Palen. It remains a single-family dwelling.","period_of_significance":"1892-c.1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne/Colonial Revival, Shingle Style/Eastlake","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the form describes it as retaining a high level of integrity inside and out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.698887-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000015.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000015/cd74f4a904-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000015/cd74f4a904-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Palen_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:Frank_Palen_House,_Kingston,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322699","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Palen_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706274"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/palen-frank-a-house-05000015/"}