{"nrhp_refnum":"87001091","name":"Heermance House and Law Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Rhinecliff and Long Dock Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rhinecliff","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.92838182500003,"lon":-73.94365909399994,"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 mid-nineteenth century Italianate cottage with a small Gothic-inspired law office and a garage, on a 1.3-acre corner lot at Rhinecliff Road and Long Dock Road near Rhinecliff in the town of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York. The house dates from about 1858, the law office from about 1866 or 1886, and the garage from about 1900.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the property as a distinctive example of Picturesque, eclectic architecture in Rhinebeck. The house gives a conventional side-hall form an Italian Villa quality through bracketed eaves, scroll-sawn ornament and a full-width porch. The intact law office and the garage complement it. The property is also tied to the Heermance family, early Rhinebeck settlers.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Rhinecliff Road and Long Dock Road, north of the hamlet of Rhinecliff, this property combines a mid-nineteenth century house, a small law office and a garage on 1.3 acres. The main house, built about 1858, is a two-story, three-bay, side-hall dwelling whose form recalls Federal and Greek Revival buildings. Its bracketed eaves, pierced woodwork, arcaded porch frieze and cross-gabled side pavilion give it the look of an Italian Villa. A clapboard law office with pierced bargeboards and a cross-gable roof sits several hundred feet to the south, and a plain frame garage from about 1900 stands behind the house. The property takes its name from Andrew J. and Martin Heermance, the latter a lawyer who occupied the house in 1886. The Heermances descended from one of Rhinebeck's earliest families. The house and office were listed as notable examples of mid- to late nineteenth century Picturesque architecture in the town. The interior has been subdivided into apartments, though some parlor woodwork survives.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate (main house); Picturesque, Gothic-inspired law office","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house has been divided into several apartments and is in good condition. The law office is described as vacant and slightly deteriorated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.817706-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001091.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001091/d167bdb5a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001091/d167bdb5a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heermance_House_and_Law_Office_Jun_11.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heermance_House_and_Law_Office_Jun_11.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90002219","name":"Hudson River Heritage Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/hudson-river-heritage-historic-district-90002219/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312624","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heermance_House_and_Law_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5698131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/heermance-house-and-law-office-87001091/"}