{"nrhp_refnum":"74001287","name":"Bull Stone House","other_names":["William Bull House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hamptonburgh Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Campbell Hall","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.434565905000056,"lon":-74.26098972099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story stone house with an associated Dutch-style barn on Hamptonburgh Road in Campbell Hall, Orange County, New York, built between 1722 and 1727 by stone mason William Bull as his own home.","why_significant":"The house is the parent house of many stone dwellings built by William Bull, Orange County's first professional stone mason and its most prolific early builder. It is an outstanding, well-preserved 18th-century work whose English design and eleven-foot ceilings differ from typical Hudson Valley houses. Paired with a Dutch barn, it forms an unusual combination, and it is described as the longest-held family homestead in the county.","narrative":"Standing alone on a slight rise above Hamptonburgh Road in Campbell Hall, this stone house was built between 1722 and 1727 by William Bull, an English-born mason who arrived in the colonies in 1716. The two-and-a-half-story building measures about 37 by 38 feet, so it looks nearly square. Its walls are two feet thick, its ceilings rise eleven feet on both floors, and a massive chimney crowns the east end of the slate roof. Inside, a long room along the north side is flanked by a hall and parlor, with panelled fireplace walls and a string staircase. Bull went on to build many similar houses, several for relatives, and is recorded as Orange County's first professional stone mason. The entrance at the end wall and the English design set the house apart from the Dutch-influenced buildings around it. A Dutch-style barn behind it completes the unusual pairing. The property has remained in the Bull family for roughly two and a half centuries.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"William Bull","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained, in good condition, privately owned, occupied as a private residence, and still in the Bull family; the barn's siding and roof sheathing have been replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.616783-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001287.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001287/72e31ab7ae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001287/72e31ab7ae-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bull_Stone_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Bull_Stone_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320592","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4996634"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/bull-stone-house-74001287/"}