{"nrhp_refnum":"99000996","name":"Stilwell Stone House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"189 Old Kings Highway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.811165975500074,"lon":-74.18835249240641,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-08-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story stone dwelling with a nineteenth-century barn, on Old Kings Highway in the hamlet of Kyserike, town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York. A date stone over the door reads 1795.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a classic example of the linear one-and-one-half story stone dwelling typical of the Hudson Valley and Ulster County. It is also notable as one of the few local houses with a date stone. The English barn is one of few surviving in Rochester and documents changing farm life.","narrative":"Set back from Old Kings Highway in the hamlet of Kyserike, this one-and-one-half story stone house was built on a linear plan under a gabled roof. A date stone above the front door carries the names Andrew Bodley and Isaac Stilwill and the year 1795; Bodley is thought to have been a mason, and the stone appears to have been added to an earlier stone section to the south. Twentieth-century changes include six gabled dormers, a picture window and a new porch. A heavy timber English barn from the nineteenth century stands nearby. The property matters as a representative of the linear stone house that dominated Ulster County and Rochester building from the late seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century. It is also one of few local houses with a date stone, and its barn is one of the few such barns left in the town, illustrating changing farming life.","period_of_significance":"ca.1795-ca.1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The barn is described as in fair condition. The house and barn are listed with both historic and current domestic and agricultural uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.979624-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000996.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000996/3952c0dd22-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000996/3952c0dd22-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Larry Arvidson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1050036_Stilwell_Stone_House,_189_Old_Kings_Highway,_Rochester,_Ulster_Cnty,_NY.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Arvidson</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:P1050036_Stilwell_Stone_House,_189_Old_Kings_Highway,_Rochester,_Ulster_Cnty,_NY.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315206","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilwell_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7617349"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/stilwell-stone-house-99000996/"}