{"nrhp_refnum":"99000999","name":"Van Wagenen, Jacobus, Stone House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2659 Lucas Turnpike","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.80420464800005,"lon":-74.17710400499993,"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 Dutch Colonial stone dwelling at 2659 Lucas Turnpike in the hamlet of Kyserike, town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York, built ca. 1751 and later expanded.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an example of the classic one-and-one-half story linear stone house that was the predominant stone dwelling form in Ulster County and the Town of Rochester from the late seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century. It is also significant as the early eighteenth-century home of the Van Wagenen family, important in local history.","narrative":"Set on a wooded hill at the corner of Lucas Turnpike and Kyserike Road in the town of Rochester, this stone house dates to about 1751 and remains a single-family home. It is a traditional one-and-one-half story, gable-roofed building with a central chimney and a north gable-end chimney. Early twentieth-century changes include a Doric-columned porch, gabled dormers and a wing with a recessed porch, but the interior keeps its wide plank floors, moldings, architraves and exposed ceiling beams. The house is listed for its architecture. It represents the linear stone dwelling that dominated Ulster County building from the late seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century; of fifty-six surviving masonry houses in Rochester built before 1850, thirty-eight follow this form. It is also tied to the Van Wagenen family. Jacobus Van Wagenen, probably its builder, served as a Rochester trustee and in the Ulster County militia, and the family held the property into the twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"ca.1751","architect_builder":"Jacobus Van Wagenen (most likely builder, per the narrative); the form lists the architect/builder as n/a","architectural_style":"Colonial/Dutch Colonial","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling; early twentieth-century porch, dormers and a south wing have been added, and a non-contributing garage and stone well cover stand on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.419964-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000999.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000999/f52f65b2c3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000999/f52f65b2c3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Larry Arvidson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1050022_Jacobus_Van_Wagenen_Stone_House,_2659_Lucas_Turnpike,_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:P1050022_Jacobus_Van_Wagenen_Stone_House,_2659_Lucas_Turnpike,_Rochester,_Ulster_Cnty,_NY.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315196","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Van_Wagenen_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6119898"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/van-wagenen-jacobus-stone-house-99000999/"}