{"nrhp_refnum":"82001162","name":"Rombout House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"New Hackensack Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.67977191600005,"lon":-73.89366925199994,"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 large 2-1/2-story clapboard country house on the Vassar Farms property along New Hackensack Road in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, built about 1854.","why_significant":"It is described as the largest and best example of the Bracketed style among houses in the Poughkeepsie area. It retains finely crafted exterior and interior period details and its original rural setting, which the nomination boundary was drawn to preserve.","narrative":"Rombout House is a large country house built around 1854 on the Vassar Farms property off New Hackensack Road in Poughkeepsie. It is a 2-1/2-story clapboard building on a raised brick basement, with a three-bay facade, a two-story central projection, arched one-over-one windows, a Palladian-style triple-arched window and paired brackets with ball pendants under the cornice. Inside, period woodwork and ceiling medallions survive. Deed records show the property sold in January 1854 for $4,000 and again a year later for $10,000, which suggests the house was built in between. After passing through many hands in the late nineteenth century, it was sold to Vassar College in 1915. The house is regarded as the largest and best Bracketed-style residence in the Poughkeepsie area. Trees and the surrounding farmland preserve its rural setting, and the listed boundary includes enough land to protect that setting. The rear wing was remodeled about 1923, and the house remains in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bracketed Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and still used as a residence; rear wing remodeled c.1923.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.950081-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001162/c51c4eec16-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001162/c51c4eec16-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Collin Knopp-Schwyn","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rombout_House_exterior,_2013.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Collin Knopp-Schwyn</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rombout_House_exterior,_2013.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rombout_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7362937"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/rombout-house-82001162/"}