{"nrhp_refnum":"91001656","name":"Poppletown Farmhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Old Post Rd. and Swarte Kill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Esopus","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.82121311000003,"lon":-73.97480233399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A circa 1800 one-and-one-half story rubble stone farmhouse at Old Post Road and Swarte Kill Road in Esopus, Ulster County, New York, on a 4.4-acre remnant of a former 120-acre mountainside farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a highly intact, distinctive example of vernacular stone domestic architecture in Ulster County. It blends the traditional stone-house form with Federal and Neoclassical features such as a symmetrical facade, center hall plan and molded wooden entrance with sidelights. It documents how regional stone house design changed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.","narrative":"Built around 1800 near the Hudson River in Esopus, this rubble stone farmhouse is a five-bay, one-and-one-half story dwelling with a gable roof and center hall plan. It sits at Old Post Road and Swarte Kill Road on 4.4 acres, all that remains of a 120-acre mountainside farm known as Poppletown. The land passed into the hands of John Beaver Jr. through purchases between 1802 and 1804, and the Beaver family kept the farm until 1867. The house is valued as a well-preserved example of Ulster County stone farmhouse building. It keeps the region's long tradition of stone walls and compact massing, yet adds a strictly symmetrical facade, a Federal-style entrance with fluted pilasters and sidelights, and more refined woodwork in the parlor. The kitchen was placed in the basement, and the formal parlor became the main room. Early twentieth-century dormers and a cross-gable were added, but the building remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c. 1802","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial/Dutch Colonial; Early Republic/Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Retains a high degree of physical integrity and remains in use as a single dwelling; four mid-twentieth-century outbuildings on the lot are non-contributing, and most are in ruinous condition except a modernized garage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.425416-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91001656.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001656/d5c9fa454f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001656/d5c9fa454f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EsopusNY_PoppletownFarmhouse.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:EsopusNY_PoppletownFarmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322711","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppletown_Farmhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7229550"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/poppletown-farmhouse-91001656/"}