{"nrhp_refnum":"99000810","name":"Guilford-Bower Farm House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Albany Post Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Paltz","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.710655360500056,"lon":-74.15886259360826,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick farm house with a rear kitchen wing, built c1850 on Albany Post Road near New Paltz in the Town of Gardiner, Ulster County, New York. It stands on the site of an earlier stone and brick house that burned, on land first farmed by the Hasbrouck family from 1706.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as the surviving homestead of a long-held Hasbrouck family farm on the Guilford Patent, which stayed largely intact from the early 1700s until 1973. Its brick construction, formal center-passage plan and Gothic and Renaissance-influenced details are cited as showing the owner's social and economic standing. Its open riverside setting also remains largely unspoiled.","narrative":"Built around 1850 along Albany Post Road, south of New Paltz in Ulster County, this two-story brick farm house sits above the Wallkill River with views toward the Shawangunk Mountains. It replaced an earlier stone and brick house that burned. That house had been built shortly before 1798 near the site of the 1706 homestead of Joseph Hasbrouck. The present house has load-bearing brick walls on a stone basement, a rear kitchen wing, bracketed eaves, and a front piazza with Gothic-style tracery. Inside, a central passage separates formal front rooms from smaller service rooms. The land was part of the 2000-acre Guilford Patent and remained in the Hasbrouck family for six generations, until 1925. Two children's aid organizations then ran a fresh air camp there until 1973. Camp-era buildings and alterations changed parts of the site, but the house keeps much of its original form and its open rural setting. Today it remains a residence beside working fields.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with surrounding fields in agricultural use. The interior was partly restored after a period as camp headquarters.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.110613-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000810.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322624","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford-Bower_Farm_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5615905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/guilford-bower-farm-house-99000810/"}