{"nrhp_refnum":"95000950","name":"Krom Stone House at 45 Upper Whitfield Road","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"45 Upper Whitfield Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.82867803200003,"lon":-74.23062027099996,"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 one-and-one-half story fieldstone dwelling at 45 Upper Whitfield Road in a rural part of the town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York, built about 1780 and expanded about 1890. The 8.1 acre property also has a garage and four chicken coops from about 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is an outstanding regional example of the linear stone dwelling common in the Hudson Valley and Ulster County. It keeps a largely intact late eighteenth-century stone core along with a late nineteenth-century expansion. Together these show how this early house type evolved over time.","narrative":"Set beside a small seasonal stream on Upper Whitfield Road in the town of Rochester, this fieldstone house dates to about 1780. It began as a one-room, one-and-one-half story dwelling with a two-bay front and an entrance at the east end. Around 1890 the garret was raised to a full story with drop siding, the original multiple-light sash was replaced with single-light sash, a two-story frame rear wing was added, and a wrap-around porch was built. The property also holds a ca. 1930 garage and four chicken coops, none of which are counted as historic. The house is considered significant as a regional example of the linear stone dwelling that dominated Ulster County building from the late seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Its stone core survives substantially intact, and fabric from both building campaigns remains, showing how such early Hudson Valley houses were enlarged into year-round family homes.","period_of_significance":"ca.1780, ca.1890","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other/vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the ca. 1930 garage and four chicken coops are 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 02:51:50.589715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000950.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000950/cb141128e0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000950/cb141128e0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krom_Stone_House_at_45_Upper_Whitfield_Road,_Kerhonkson,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krom_Stone_House_at_45_Upper_Whitfield_Road,_Kerhonkson,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krom_Stone_House_at_45_Upper_Whitfield_Road","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6438840"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/krom-stone-house-at-45-upper-whitfield-road-95000950/"}