Cole-Hasbrouck Farm Historic District

Cole-Hasbrouck Farm is a 68-acre complex at the crossroads hamlet of Modena, in southeastern Ulster County, New York. At its center is a two-story brick and stone house built around 1820 by John Cole, a lawyer and land speculator who assembled more than 1,000 acres nearby. The house has a five-bay Flemish bond facade, parapeted end walls with paired chimneys, and a central passage whose plaster walls imitate marble with lampblack and marble chips. Later additions include a 1907 dining wing and large porches from the 1920s. Around the house are gardens, a farmyard of barns and outbuildings, fields, and hamlet properties such as a hotel and blacksmith shop. Cole and his heirs in the Noyes and Hasbrouck families leased, managed or built these components, shaping the growth of Modena. Though land sales have reduced the original holding, the home farm and its core features remain largely intact, illustrating farming, commerce and local building traditions in the Wallkill Valley.