Rest Plaus Historic District

Rest Plaus Historic District covers roughly 725 acres in southern Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, between the Rondout Creek and the Rest Plaus Kill. It consists mostly of open farmland that has been worked for more than 250 years, along with 69 contributing buildings, sites, structures and objects on twenty-four properties. Early houses include the Benjamin Hasbrouck house of 1752 and Feather Farm from the 1750s, both stone dwellings that grew by adding rooms at the gable end. Later buildings include the 1797 George Grosse stone house, a vernacular Greek Revival brick house, and a Greek Revival addition of 1842. The Rest Place Grist Mill, first built in 1765, retains its mid-nineteenth-century machinery. The district matters as an example of Dutch and English colonial settlement in the Hudson Valley, where one-and-one-half-story stone houses and farm subdivisions among family members shaped the landscape. Wheat prosperity faded in the late 1820s, and building revived in the 1840s.