{"nrhp_refnum":"82001132","name":"Dwight-Hooker Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Dwight St. from Hamilton to Hooker, and 79-85 Hooker Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.69419701900006,"lon":-73.92358531699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly six-acre residential historic district in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, made up of the crescent-shaped Dwight Street and four houses at 79-85 Hooker Avenue. Most houses were built between about 1895 and 1915.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the most architecturally significant turn-of-the-century neighborhood in Poughkeepsie. It was a planned neighborhood laid out about 1895 on part of the Whitehouse estate, with advice from architect Horace Trumbauer. Its houses in eclectic styles were the most modern and distinctive of their type in the city and reflected high-style taste nationally.","narrative":"Dwight Street in Poughkeepsie curves in a crescent, lined with trees and broad lawns, and together with four houses on Hooker Avenue it forms a planned neighborhood of about six acres. The land was once part of the Whitehouse estate and was surveyed and laid out around 1895, with advice from Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer, who was known for picturesque, tree-lined residential planning. Most houses date from 1895 to 1915 and show eclectic styles, including Shingle, Tudor Revival, Spanish Revival and Colonial Revival, in clapboard, stone, stucco, stained shingle and terra cotta roofing. Local architects Percival M. Lloyd and DuBois Carpenter designed several of them, and Carpenter had two hollow tile residences built by the Poughkeepsie Engineering and Contracting Company. When built, the houses were the most modern and distinctive of their type in the city. A few later houses do not contribute, but they sit back on large lawns and do not seriously change the early twentieth-century appearance.","period_of_significance":"1895-1915","architect_builder":"Horace Trumbauer (advising architect); Percival M. Lloyd; DuBois Carpenter; Poughkeepsie Engineering and Contracting Company (builder of two hollow tile houses)","architectural_style":"Eclectic styles: Shingle, Tudor Revival, Spanish Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and still a desirable place to live; two modern houses and one c.1953 house are non-contributing. No threats are reported.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.761947-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001132.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001132/f00a2de1e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001132/f00a2de1e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Dwight_Street,_Poughkeepsie_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://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_Dwight_Street,_Poughkeepsie_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312658","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%E2%80%93Hooker_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5318099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/dwight-hooker-avenue-historic-district-82001132/"}