{"nrhp_refnum":"09000041","name":"Yeomans, Moses, House","other_names":["Abbey Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"252-278 Delaware Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.93012640100005,"lon":-73.97315666899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1-1/2 story pre-Revolutionary Dutch Colonial vernacular stone house at 252-278 Delaware Avenue in the Ponckhockie area of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, with later Victorian and early 20th century additions and a 2.6-acre woodlot containing mill ruins.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an example of early Dutch vernacular stone construction with Georgian, Victorian and later modifications. It also links the house to the Newark Lime & Cement Manufacturing Company: the rear addition is an early example of natural cement poured concrete construction, and the house was occupied by a senior company official. The associated mill ruins and millstones may hold archaeological information on the early cement industry.","narrative":"Set on a knoll in Kingston's Ponckhockie neighborhood, this 1-1/2 story stone house began as a pre-Revolutionary Dutch Colonial dwelling with walls about two feet thick, hand-hewn cellar beams and a cellar kitchen hearth. Local legend holds that it was damaged when the British burned Kingston in 1777, and some first-floor beams show charring. Later owners added a cross-gable, front porch, dormers and a bay window around 1850, then a rear addition of natural cement concrete around 1870. That addition dates to the period when the Newark Lime & Cement Manufacturing Company owned the property, and it is an early example of poured natural cement construction. The house was later occupied by cement company bookkeeper David B. Abbey, and it is described as one of the few surviving houses lived in by a senior company official. The nominated land also includes a wooded parcel with mill ruins, three millstones, a barn, a shed and several marker stones tied to the property's history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stephen Coutant, a local carpenter (thought possibly responsible for the Victorian modifications; the initials SC are inscribed on a slab dated 1850)","architectural_style":"Colonial/Dutch Colonial Vernacular; Mid-19th Century/Gothic Revival; Late 19th & Early 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a single-family residence, with the same use today.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.971633-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000041.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000041/3f3ada1a53-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000041/3f3ada1a53-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KingstonNY_MosesYeomansHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KingstonNY_MosesYeomansHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322769","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Yeomans_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6915986"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/yeomans-moses-house-09000041/"}