{"nrhp_refnum":"85002443","name":"Chestnut Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Chestnut St., Broadway, E. Chestnut, Livingston & Stuyvesant Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.92418431950006,"lon":-73.98827222246834,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 22 acres in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, covering parts of Chestnut, Broadway, Stuyvesant and Livingston Streets. It holds 50 contributing features, built between about 1855 and 1919.","why_significant":"The district shows how Kingston's middle and upper middle classes lived during a period of late nineteenth and early twentieth century prosperity tied to canal, river and building-materials industries. Its substantial homes illustrate a range of popular architectural styles on dramatic hillside sites. Development began when canal superintendent James S. McEntee laid out Chestnut Street on a ridge between Rondout and Kingston.","narrative":"Chestnut Street Historic District is a hillside residential neighborhood in Kingston, New York, set along a ridge that separates the historic centers of Rondout and Kingston. About 22 acres in size, it includes parts of Chestnut, Broadway, Stuyvesant and Livingston Streets and holds 44 contributing buildings and six contributing structures. Houses date from about 1855 to 1919 and show Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Italian Renaissance styles. Notable examples include the bluestone Henry Samson house, the remodelled Dr. Abraham Crispell house, the Queen Anne George Coykendall house and the Immanuel Lutheran Church. The neighborhood grew as a home for bankers, merchants, physicians and managers who prospered with Kingston's transportation and building materials industries. Canal superintendent James S. McEntee bought farmland on the ridge in the 1840s and had laid out Chestnut Street by 1853. The boundaries exclude surrounding areas of smaller, altered housing and modern redevelopment.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Hugh McCullough (architect of the 1919 remodelling of the Dr. Abraham Crispell house)","architectural_style":"Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, occupied, and mostly private residences; one church and one funeral home are also included.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.68148-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002443.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002443/af920bf971-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002443/af920bf971-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KingstonNY_ChestnutStreetHD_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KingstonNY_ChestnutStreetHD_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322560","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Street_Historic_District_(Kingston,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5094000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/chestnut-street-historic-district-85002443/"}