{"nrhp_refnum":"75001231","name":"Kingston Stockade District","other_names":["See Also:Senate House","Clinton Avenue Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Area bounded by both sides of Clinton Ave., Main, Green, and Front Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.93441530150005,"lon":-74.01992853197882,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Military","Politics/Government","Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-block historic district in uptown Kingston, Ulster County, New York, covering the original Dutch stockade settlement laid out in 1658, bounded by Clinton Avenue, North Front, Green and Main Streets, plus the Lowe-Bogardus ruin site on Converse Street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is one of three early colonial settlements in New York State and the only one where authentic elements of the original fortification remain. It served as the state's first capital in 1777, where the first state constitution was framed. It also presents about three centuries of architecture, from late 17th-century stone houses to 19th-century commercial buildings.","narrative":"Uptown Kingston's Stockade District preserves the footprint of a Dutch village fortified in 1658 under Peter Stuyvesant, after Indian raids devastated nearby settlements. The stockade's boundary streets, Green, Main, Clinton Avenue and North Front, remain in place, and the bluff that protected the settlement is still largely intact. In 1777 the village became New York's first state capital, hosting the convention that adopted the first state constitution; the British burned it that October, and it was rebuilt on its original plan. Today the eight-block area holds eight late 17th-century stone houses and about a dozen more from the 18th and early 19th centuries, alongside Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne buildings. Notable examples include the 1852 Old Dutch Church by Minard LaFever, the 1818 county courthouse, the 1857 Firemen's Hall and the Clermont Building on Wall Street. The district remains the city's commercial center and a focus of county government.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Old Dutch Church designed by Minard LaFever (1852); 124 Green Street cottage built by Charles Paige Carter","architectural_style":"Mixed styles from Dutch colonial stone houses through Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne/Eastlake and French Mansard","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, largely unaltered and on its original site; now the Kingston business district with residential and commercial use, and an important focus for county government.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.956861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001231.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001231/0711a98842-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001231/0711a98842-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stockade_District,_Kingston,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322648","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Stockade_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1742166"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/kingston-stockade-district-75001231/"}