{"nrhp_refnum":"88000066","name":"DuBois, Josiah, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Libertyville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Paltz","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.727029623500044,"lon":-74.11332275898599,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":null,"is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 28-acre farm on Libertyville Road, south of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, centered on a two-story Federal period brick farmhouse built in 1822 for Josiah DuBois, with eight outbuildings and a tenant house.","why_significant":"The farm is presented as a distinguished and intact example of a Federal period farm tied to the Huguenot community of New Paltz. The brick house shows how prosperous Huguenot farmers moved from the traditional one and one-half story stone house to English-influenced Neoclassical design, while keeping some Dutch building traditions. The outbuildings, including a rare Dutch-framed granary, illustrate how a farm of the period was organized.","narrative":"Set on a slight rise south of New Paltz, this 28-acre farm centers on a two-story brick house completed in 1822 for Josiah DuBois, a fifth-generation descendant of an original New Paltz patentee. The house has a five-bay symmetrical front, Flemish bond brickwork, marble window trim and a center hall with marbleized plaster walls, a finish linked to the Newburgh builder Robert Cromwell. Its broad, horizontal proportions and hewn framing keep ties to the older Huguenot and Dutch building tradition. Surviving outbuildings include a wagon barn, a granary, a shop, a hen house, a smoke house, a privy, a well house and a Greek Revival tenant house. The granary is noted as a rare example of Dutch framing in a farm building other than a barn. The property is significant for showing how a prosperous Huguenot farm family adopted Federal period taste while the community was absorbed into mainstream American culture. Open fields and views toward the Shawangunk Mountains preserve the setting.","period_of_significance":"1822-1869","architect_builder":"unknown, possibly Robert Cromwell","architectural_style":"Federal (house); Greek Revival (tenant house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; condition excellent and largely unaltered, though the major barns no longer survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.738363-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000066.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322598","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/dubois-josiah-farm-88000066/"}