{"nrhp_refnum":"82001120","name":"Balding Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Balding Ave. between Mansion and Marshall Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.70818502700007,"lon":-73.92647720799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about four acres along Balding Avenue between Mangin and Marshall Streets in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. It holds houses built mostly from the 1870s to about 1905.","why_significant":"Balding Avenue is presented as one of Poughkeepsie's finest streets illustrating a solidly middle-class neighborhood of the later nineteenth century. Its houses are more modest and simpler than those on nearby Academy Street, and the tree-lined streetscape is intact. At least one local architect, Percival M. Lloyd, is known to have designed a building on the street.","narrative":"Balding Avenue in Poughkeepsie is a single tree-shaded block of middle-class houses built mainly after the middle of the nineteenth century, with most dating from about 1872 to 1905. The roughly four-acre district includes a row of four simple Bracketed-style houses, along with Second Empire dwellings with slate mansard roofs and several Queen Anne examples with turrets, shingles and decorative porches. Gothic Revival and Eastern Stick elements also appear. All of the houses are two to three-and-a-half stories and clapboarded, though many now have modern siding. The street was shown as proposed on an 1867 map. Compared with the grander homes of Academy Street and the many worker dwellings elsewhere in the city, these houses show modesty and simplicity, and the street often goes unnoticed. Its intact streetscape adds to its period character, and local architect Percival M. Lloyd designed one of the buildings. The block is described as well maintained, reflecting residents' pride, and only one building is non-contributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Percival M. Lloyd (designed one structure, No. 32)","architectural_style":"Bracketed, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Victorian Residential, Eastern Stick and Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained, with one non-contributing building; no threats to the area are reported.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.248296-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001120.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001120/9657b5efb0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001120/9657b5efb0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Balding_Avenue,_Poughkeepsie,_NY.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:Houses_on_Balding_Avenue,_Poughkeepsie,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312538","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balding_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4850437"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/balding-avenue-historic-district-82001120/"}