Dwight-Hooker Avenue Historic District

Dwight Street in Poughkeepsie curves in a crescent, lined with trees and broad lawns, and together with four houses on Hooker Avenue it forms a planned neighborhood of about six acres. The land was once part of the Whitehouse estate and was surveyed and laid out around 1895, with advice from Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer, who was known for picturesque, tree-lined residential planning. Most houses date from 1895 to 1915 and show eclectic styles, including Shingle, Tudor Revival, Spanish Revival and Colonial Revival, in clapboard, stone, stucco, stained shingle and terra cotta roofing. Local architects Percival M. Lloyd and DuBois Carpenter designed several of them, and Carpenter had two hollow tile residences built by the Poughkeepsie Engineering and Contracting Company. When built, the houses were the most modern and distinctive of their type in the city. A few later houses do not contribute, but they sit back on large lawns and do not seriously change the early twentieth-century appearance.