{"nrhp_refnum":"94001371","name":"Witbeck, William A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Co. Rd. 26A, E of jct. with Gibbons Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stuyvesant","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.38837403000008,"lon":-73.75927289899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story, five-by-two bay wood frame house on County Route 26A in the town of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, New York, built about 1812, probably by William A. Witbeck.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a highly intact example of early nineteenth century transitional Dutch/Federal domestic architecture in the region. It keeps typical features such as a center entrance with sidelights, a single-pile plan and early interior details. It was cited and illustrated by Roderic Blackburn as an example of its type, and it remains an important local landmark.","narrative":"Set among rolling farmland on County Route 26A in Stuyvesant, Columbia County, this one-and-one-half story frame house dates to about 1812 and is believed to have been built by William A. Witbeck around the time of his marriage. Its five-by-two bay form, clapboard walls, gable roof, and center entrance with sidelights reflect the transitional Dutch and English Federal style of the post-Revolutionary Hudson Valley. Inside, a center hall divides two large rooms, and early features survive, including heavy ceiling beams, knee braces, a Rumford-type fireplace, and a cellar kitchen hearth. Greek Revival moldings and mantels, added when the farm prospered in the mid-nineteenth century, and a lean-to likely added by the 1860s changed the house without altering its basic form. Later work in the 1920s and 1986-87 added rooms, and a modern garage stands to the north. The house was listed for its architecture and its unusual integrity as a regional house type, and a published study of Dutch building culture cites it as an example.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1812 - ca. 1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal (transitional Dutch/English Federal)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; a modern garage on the property is non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.874218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94001371.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317129","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Witbeck_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8004085"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/witbeck-william-a-house-94001371/"}