Main Street-Albertson Street-Park Place Historic District

Main Street, Park Place and Albertson Street in the village of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, form a compact residential district of thirty contributing buildings, including twenty-three dwellings, garages, carriage barns and a barn. Most houses are two-story frame buildings set back from the street, built mainly between 1840 and 1860. They are not architect-designed but are vernacular interpretations of Late Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate and Second Empire fashions, built by local Hudson Valley carpenters. Land along Main Street was parceled off from 1836 from a tract owned by Judge William W. Woodworth. The first owners were largely merchants and craftsmen, and later residents included workers tied to nearby estates such as the Vanderbilt and Rogers properties. Institutional buildings include the former Baptist Church, the former St. James Rectory, a former Methodist parsonage and the 1927 fieldstone James Roosevelt Memorial Library. Surrounding areas have changed heavily, but the district still reads as a mid-to-late nineteenth-century hamlet.