{"nrhp_refnum":"95000602","name":"Rest Plaus Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, along Old Kings Hwy., Rest Plaus Rd. and Lucas Tpk. (Co. Rt. 1)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marbletown","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.82225983300006,"lon":-74.16574091097212,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Agriculture","Industry","Education","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district of about 725 acres in the southern part of Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, made up of four principal farms along Old Kings Highway, Rest Plaus Road and Lucas Turnpike, settled from the mid-1700s.","why_significant":"The district preserves continuously farmed land and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century farmsteads, a grist mill, a school, a cemetery and a rail bed. Its colonial stone houses show how Dutch building traditions persisted in Ulster County alongside English influence. It also records the area's wheat-farming prosperity, its decline in the late 1820s, and renewed building in the 1840s.","narrative":"Rest Plaus Historic District covers roughly 725 acres in southern Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, between the Rondout Creek and the Rest Plaus Kill. It consists mostly of open farmland that has been worked for more than 250 years, along with 69 contributing buildings, sites, structures and objects on twenty-four properties. Early houses include the Benjamin Hasbrouck house of 1752 and Feather Farm from the 1750s, both stone dwellings that grew by adding rooms at the gable end. Later buildings include the 1797 George Grosse stone house, a vernacular Greek Revival brick house, and a Greek Revival addition of 1842. The Rest Place Grist Mill, first built in 1765, retains its mid-nineteenth-century machinery. The district matters as an example of Dutch and English colonial settlement in the Hudson Valley, where one-and-one-half-story stone houses and farm subdivisions among family members shaped the landscape. Wheat prosperity faded in the late 1820s, and building revived in the 1840s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Dutch Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival, and Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly undeveloped open space, in continuous agricultural use for over 250 years. The Rest Place Grist Mill was restored and made operational in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.448051-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000602.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322719","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_Plaus_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7316039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/rest-plaus-historic-district-95000602/"}