{"nrhp_refnum":"82001129","name":"Dixon House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"49 N. Clinton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.70514899700004,"lon":-73.91967672599998,"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 Gothic Revival residence at 49 North Clinton Street in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, built around 1862 by Robert Dixon, a Poughkeepsie carpenter and builder.","why_significant":"The form calls it the most distinctive Gothic Revival building in Poughkeepsie and the most fanciful of the city's three Gothic Cottage structures. It is credited with adding significant information to the understanding of the style in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Dixon, a carpenter and builder, evidently designed it himself, based on an 1864-1865 city directory advertisement.","narrative":"Built around 1862 at 49 North Clinton Street in Poughkeepsie, this wood-frame Gothic Revival house was the work of Robert Dixon, a local carpenter and builder. City directories list his name at the address as early as 1862 and confirm it as his residence in 1867. An 1864-1865 directory advertisement offering carpentry and church furniture suggests he designed the house himself. The clapboard dwelling rises two and a half stories above a raised basement and faces west. Its decoration includes pierced bargeboards with leaf and quatrefoil cut-outs, double windows under pointed arches with molded labels, a three-sided bay with curved brackets, a square bay with a castellated roof line, and a porch with clustered reed columns. A Gothic pointed-arch door surround and transom complete the front. The house is one of three Gothic Cottage structures in Poughkeepsie considered worthy of listing, and the most elaborate. It has been described as the city's most distinctive Gothic Revival building.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Robert Dixon of Poughkeepsie","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence, as originally; condition given as fair, with deterioration noted as a threat; no major alterations listed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.858339-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001129.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312508","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_House_(Poughkeepsie,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284953"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/dixon-house-82001129/"}