Chestnut Street Historic District

Chestnut Street Historic District is a hillside residential neighborhood in Kingston, New York, set along a ridge that separates the historic centers of Rondout and Kingston. About 22 acres in size, it includes parts of Chestnut, Broadway, Stuyvesant and Livingston Streets and holds 44 contributing buildings and six contributing structures. Houses date from about 1855 to 1919 and show Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Italian Renaissance styles. Notable examples include the bluestone Henry Samson house, the remodelled Dr. Abraham Crispell house, the Queen Anne George Coykendall house and the Immanuel Lutheran Church. The neighborhood grew as a home for bankers, merchants, physicians and managers who prospered with Kingston's transportation and building materials industries. Canal superintendent James S. McEntee bought farmland on the ridge in the 1840s and had laid out Chestnut Street by 1853. The boundaries exclude surrounding areas of smaller, altered housing and modern redevelopment.