Bloomvale Historic District

Bloomvale is a former mill site on the East Branch of Wappingers Creek in central Dutchess County, New York, with records reaching back to a 1749 deed. Colonial landholder Henry Filkins' family operated saw and grist mills here. Isaac Bloom later acquired the site and built a Federal-style mansion around 1801, a five-bay frame house with a Palladian window and restrained interior detail. In the 1840s a large stone cotton mill and workers' housing replaced the old grist mill. After the cotton mill burned in 1873, a smaller stone cider mill was built in 1913 from the ruins, with a concrete-reinforced dam and a turbine. The district holds the cider mill, a surviving worker's house, the Bloom house, the water system, old road and bridge abutments, and archeological remains of mill-village buildings. It was listed for the unusually intact survival of an industrial landscape that changed with regional economies, along with its architecture.