{"nrhp_refnum":"74001314","name":"West Strand Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"West Strand and Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.91775105700003,"lon":-73.98326766999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A grouping of nine 19th-century commercial buildings along West Strand in the Rondout section of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, at the southern end of Broadway beside Rondout Creek.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the last remaining portion of the Strand and Ferry Street urban grouping, built in a part of Kingston that was economically vital in the 19th century. It is noted for architectural quality and decorative brick and cast-iron work. Such waterfront commercial districts were described as rapidly disappearing in New York State.","narrative":"Nine commercial buildings of the 19th century line West Strand in Kingston's Rondout section, near the point where Broadway meets Rondout Creek. Seven brick buildings form West Strand Row, with storefronts below and apartments above, all tied together by a continuous bluestone sill and cast-iron columns, some marked Rondout Iron Works. The Mansion House, a four-story hotel built in 1854 with about 100 rooms, and the three-story Freeman building, with its cast-iron columns and ornamental brickwork, complete the group. This was the center of Rondout's commerce, where Delaware and Hudson Canal boats met steamships and ferries, serving the cement, bluestone, shipbuilding and tugboat trades. Listing recognized it as the last remaining part of the Strand and Ferry Street grouping and as a rare surviving waterfront commercial district. The nomination describes its condition as deteriorated and altered, and the area as largely vacant.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked deteriorated and altered; the present use is listed as commercial and private residence, and largely vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.538987-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001314.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001314/968ce71a2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001314/968ce71a2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Strand_Historic_District_Nov_08.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Strand_Historic_District_Nov_08.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001641","name":"Rondout-West Strand Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/rondout-west-strand-historic-district-79001641/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322761","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Strand_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7986592"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/west-strand-historic-district-74001314/"}