{"nrhp_refnum":"66000578","name":"Huguenot Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Huguenot St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Paltz","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.75186680100006,"lon":-74.08807109599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-10-09","areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district along Huguenot Street in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, made up of five surviving stone houses from the Huguenot settlement founded in 1677-1678, with the houses dating from about 1693 to 1735 and the Old Fort from 1705.","why_significant":"The street preserves the original settlement of French Huguenot families who bought the land from the Esopus Indians in 1677 and governed themselves through the Dusine, or Twelve Men, a system the form says has no parallel in colonial America. The five stone houses are also nationally significant as examples of Dutch Colonial architecture. The street looks much as it did over two hundred years ago and has no modern intrusions.","narrative":"Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York, preserves five stone houses built between about 1693 and 1775 by the families who founded the town. The settlers were French Protestants who fled to the Palatinate in Germany and then to America. In 1677 they bought their land from the Esopus Indians and established New Paltz on the Wallkill the following spring. The houses include the Jean Hasbrouck House of about 1712, the Abraham Hasbrouck House, the Hugo Freer House, the Bevier-Elting House and the Daniel DuBois House, which began as a one-story fort in 1705. Most are one-and-a-half story fieldstone buildings with steep gabled roofs, clapboarded gable ends and solid shutters, typical of Dutch Colonial work. The district is also valued for the settlers' self-government by twelve heads of families, known as the Dusine, which lasted until the town was incorporated in 1785. The street looks much as it did two centuries ago, and the houses remain in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":"1677-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Dutch Colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"The five stone houses are described as maintained in excellent condition, with no modern intrusions on the street. The Hugo Freer House was restored in 1963.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.802352-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/66000578_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000578/ef1c27613f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000578/ef1c27613f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huguenot_houses_in_New_Paltz.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia.</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:Huguenot_houses_in_New_Paltz.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316095","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5934720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/huguenot-street-historic-district-66000578/"}