Clinton Avenue Historic District

Clinton Avenue Historic District covers a section of Kingston, New York, that follows the lines of the original Dutch village. The district takes in all of Clinton Avenue between Westbrook Lane and North Front Street, parts of North Front Street, and the east side of Fair Street between North Front and John Streets. Its buildings date from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century and serve commercial and residential uses. Clinton Avenue and North Front Street follow the stockade erected in 1654 by Peter Stuyvesant, and the streets keep the original Dutch layout. Archeological remains of the stockade logs likely survive in a lot across from the Senate House. The nomination argues that the buildings individually show the city's architectural development, and that together with the street pattern and landscaping they form the historic and spatial setting of the Senate House, a state historic site. Preserving the district was considered essential to interpreting that site.