{"nrhp_refnum":"87001073","name":"Pier, Jan, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 308","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rhinebeck","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.92852046300004,"lon":-73.90083988999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone house on Route 308 (East Market Street) just east of Rhinebeck village in Dutchess County, New York, begun about 1761 and enlarged and remodelled in 1881, with several farm outbuildings on a 3.5-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The house is significant as a fine example of a picturesque village dwelling in the Second Empire style, built around an earlier eighteenth-century German vernacular stone farmhouse. It reflects the common practice of updating older, modest buildings in later fashionable styles. The surviving commercial-size smokehouse and slaughterhouse equipment in the barn add to its importance.","narrative":"Set on a 3.5-acre parcel along Route 308 just east of Rhinebeck village, this stone house began as an eighteenth-century farmhouse built about 1761 by Jan Pier, a descendant of early Rhinebeck settlers. In 1881, during the ownership of the Tremper family, it was enlarged and remodelled into a fashionable Second Empire dwelling. Its features include a polychrome slate mansard roof, pedimented dormers with rounded-arch windows, a front verandah with ornamental woodwork, and a projecting two-story tripartite bay window. Inside, exposed beams and wide floorboards reveal the earlier origins. The village grew around the once-rural property by the mid-nineteenth century, yet several farm buildings survive, including two barns, a brick and fieldstone smokehouse, a stone cistern, and a well with wellhouse. One barn holds the remains of a slaughterhouse, linked to the Tremper family's work as locally known butchers. Together these elements illustrate both rural and village building traditions.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder unknown; original stone farmhouse built by Jan Pier according to available information","architectural_style":"Second Empire (remodelling of an eighteenth-century German vernacular stone house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"In use as a residence; condition rated good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.370985-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001073.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001073/2dbf290506-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001073/2dbf290506-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Pier_House,_Rhinebeck,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Jan_Pier_House,_Rhinebeck,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001578","name":"Rhinebeck Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/rhinebeck-village-historic-district-79001578/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312570","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pier_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6149711"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/pier-jan-house-87001073/"}