Houghtaling, Peter, Farm and Lime Kiln

Set in a sparsely settled upland area near Coxsackie, this 154-acre farm was started in 1790 when Thomas Houghtaling set aside land for his son Peter. The centerpiece is a one-and-one-half story stone farmhouse built in 1794, with datestones bearing both men's initials. Its rectangular, center-hall plan and rubble walls follow the Dutch vernacular tradition of the upper Hudson Valley. Around it are a well, smokehouse, privy, three nineteenth-century barns, early twentieth-century outbuildings, a walled family burial plot and orchards of apple and pear trees. A mid-nineteenth-century limestone lime kiln stands beside the Kalkberg, reflecting the area's growing lime industry. The farm is considered significant because these buildings, structures and landscape features keep their historic relationships and show how upland families adapted from grain to fruit, hay and lime as cash sources between 1790 and 1910. A modern greenhouse and a rebuilt woodshed are the only non-contributing features.