Quaker Street Historic District

Quaker Street is a small hamlet in south-central Duanesburg, gathered around the meeting of three roads: Route 7, Route 395 and the Schoharie Turnpike. The historic district covers 43 properties with 63 contributing features, most of them one-and-a-half to two-story frame houses built between about 1807 and 1910. Federal and Greek Revival designs predominate, kept simple and symmetrical, while Gallupville Road holds a notable group of Italianate houses. Quaker families began arriving shortly before 1780 on land leased from James Duane and built a log meetinghouse around 1780. The present frame meetinghouse of 1807 uses hand-hewn timbers, hand-wrought hardware and stoves salvaged from the earlier building, reflecting the plain Quaker style. The hamlet grew with stores, a shoe-making business begun in 1845 and First Christ Church in 1859. It was listed for its intact architecture, its role as an early commercial and manufacturing center, and its Quaker heritage.