{"nrhp_refnum":"95000949","name":"Westbrook, Dirck, Stone House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"18 Old Whitfield Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.806150323000054,"lon":-74.22106672299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural stone dwelling at 18 Old Whitfield Road in the town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York, with an early eighteenth-century stone rear wing and an early nineteenth-century Greek Revival stone front, set on a 4.5 acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding regional example of a linear stone dwelling typical of the Hudson Valley and Ulster County. The early rear wing with its surviving beehive oven adds to its importance. Early nineteenth-century changes such as eyebrow windows are typical of the period. It is one of many early stone or brick houses identified in Rochester.","narrative":"Set in a rural part of Rochester, Ulster County, New York, this stone house at 18 Old Whitfield Road combines two building campaigns. An early eighteenth-century one-and-one-half story rubble stone wing, with a central chimney and projecting beehive oven, extends from the rear of an early nineteenth-century vernacular Greek Revival stone front. The five-bay south facade has a recessed central entry with sidelights and a classical cornice. The house is attributed to Dirck Westbrook, who was active in Rochester by 1709, though no construction date has been documented. It is valued as a regional example of the linear stone dwelling that dominated Ulster County building from the late seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century. Of seventy-one early stone or brick houses identified in the town, this is one. The 4.5 acre property also holds a smokehouse, a privy, a 1929 historical marker, and two modern buildings.","period_of_significance":"ca.1709 - ca.1890","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"OTHER/vernacular (vernacular Greek Revival stone front on an earlier stone wing)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is single dwelling with secondary structures; the property includes a modern garage and caretaker's house that do not contribute.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.257499-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000949.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000949/4afca8cc09-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000949/4afca8cc09-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirck_Westbrook_Stone_House,_Kerhonkson,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirck_Westbrook_Stone_House,_Kerhonkson,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Westbrook_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5280192"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/westbrook-dirck-stone-house-95000949/"}