{"nrhp_refnum":"82001152","name":"Mount Gulian","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N of Beacon off I-84","address_restricted":false,"city":"Beacon","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.523674057500045,"lon":-73.98122648979358,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Gulian is a 12.71-acre site just north of Beacon in the Town of Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York. It holds the reconstructed circa 1740 Verplanck manor house, a relocated Dutch barn, two wells, a possible mill site and a nineteenth-century garden.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the site matters for its historical associations, including Baron von Steuben's headquarters in the final winter of the Revolution and the founding of the Society of the Cincinnati. It is also significant for its historic archaeological research potential and for the Dutch barn, one of the earliest surviving in the United States, with unusual projecting gables. Reconstruction of the house is noted as having compromised its integrity.","narrative":"Mount Gulian is a 12.71-acre site north of Beacon, New York, on the Hudson River, where the Verplanck family lived for roughly two centuries. Gulian Verplanck II most likely built the one-and-a-half-story stone house around 1740. A large Federal-style addition followed in 1804, and a fire in 1931 gutted the building. Between 1967 and 1975 the older portion was rebuilt on its original foundation and surviving walls, guided by an eighteenth-century engraving and family photographs. The grounds also hold a Dutch barn built by Philip Verplanck I, moved from Fishkill Plains and reassembled in the 1970s. It is among the earliest Dutch barns surviving in the country and has unusual projecting gables. Baron von Steuben used the house as headquarters during the last winter of the Revolution, and it is linked to the founding of the Society of the Cincinnati. Archaeological testing in 1978 found eighteenth-century deposits, a domestic midden and a probable prehistoric hearth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Gulian Verplanck II & Philip Verplanck I","architectural_style":"Federal-style 1804 addition (now gone); Dutch barn","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house burned in 1931 and was reconstructed between 1967 and 1975. The Dutch barn was moved and rebuilt at the site in 1974-1976. The property is occupied and used as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.368964-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001152.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001152/fa922c8777-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001152/fa922c8777-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rolf Müller","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_gulian_fishkill_closeup_2006.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolf Müller</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:Mount_gulian_fishkill_closeup_2006.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gulian","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6921008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/mount-gulian-82001152/"}