ALBANY – The New York State Board for Historic Preservation has added Hudson Valley properties to the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
One building at 317 Main Street in the City of Poughkeepsie has been added to the Main Mall Row Historic District.
The row is a grouping of stylish commercial buildings that are within the central business district.
The Main Mall Row Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of the Poughkeepsie Multiple Resource Area.
The Standard Gage Company in Poughkeepsie has also been listed. The large, multi-section former industrial manufacturing complex included Standard Gage Company, which made precision blocks and gauges and occupied the site for almost 80 years.
The property consists of interconnected building sections, extensions, and additions, with the earliest construction dating to 1905.
The 1853 William H. and Mary M. Romeyn House in Kingston is an example of an intact moid-19th century Gothic Revival cottage that is associated with the Picturesque Movement in the decades before and after the Civil War.
Ther Copake Railroad Depot in the Town of Copake is a small, one-story wood-frame 1876 passenger station connected to a one-story 1913 freight house.
It is an intact example of a small, rural railroad station built in the Hudson Valley for the Rhinebeck & Connecticut Railroad Company. It is one of three of the company’s surviving depots and the only one that has not been moved or substantially altered.
The Philmont Historic District in the Town of Claverack is a representation of New York’s factory-built villages of the 19th century. Access to water power from the Agawamuck Creek and later the power canal plus proximity to the railroad made the district an attractive location for straw paper and hosiery manufacturers for several decades.
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