Kingston Notebook
[nggallery id=”29028″ template=galleryview] We got away for a couple of days this past holiday weekend to a farmhouse outside Kingston, the former capital of New York State (something you’d already know if you were following us on Twitter!). We saw a lot of beautiful houses, but this one down in the Rondout Historic District was…
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We got away for a couple of days this past holiday weekend to a farmhouse outside Kingston, the former capital of New York State (something you’d already know if you were following us on Twitter!). We saw a lot of beautiful houses, but this one down in the Rondout Historic District was probably our favorite. Any architecture buffs out there care to take a stab at placing this is historical context?
We rented a lovely dutch stone farmhouse in nearby Rosendale several years ago. Lovely, authentic house. Lots in the area.
looks like maybe the row house people may not be evicted.
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/02/20/news/doc499e39acb5b7c255256368.txt
I live in Kingston in a 1904 Foursquare house that I paid $152,000 for four years ago. I chose it because the interior reminded me of a Brooklyn house. I have a double lot (0.18 acre) in which I have a very productive food garden and fruit orchard. I am not in either of the two districts bKrupt mentions, but in another midtown neighborhood that is more working class, less pretty but also quite convenient. I’ve always thought the house pictured, which is in the Rondout section, is interesting, but ultimately kind of ugly. There are a lot of really nice old houses in Kingston, though, and many pre-Revolutionary stone houses, though on the whole the housing stock is not as grand as what you see in places like Hudson. What I like about K’town & Ulster County: affordable lifestyle, access to beautiful natural places, easy access to NYC by bus or car, small community in which it’s easy to find friends. I dislike: sprawliness (still need a car), lack of good jobs (even IBM is in the midst of layoffs), lack of good ethnic food. We do have a great new Afghan restaurant. We have many NYC/Brooklyn transplants here. I actually think of Kingston as a far-flung neighborhood of NYC.
Awesome. And probably one third the price of a Clinton Hill brownstone.
***Bid half off peak comps***
BKrupt: sounds like that row of houses (National Historic register) was converted without permits and everyone might be evicted. I’ll have to go by this wkend and see how they look now. I did view couple several years back before work done.
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/02/13/news/doc4994fef8dcfae611435103.txt
Beacon has a street or two with houses like this a short walk from Dia. One was operating as a B&B a while back.
Minmin- very perceptive about the house’s orientation-
the main photo above is a side view from a narrow side street (the house is on corner of Rogers and Broadway- am I allowed to divulge?) — the front view is from Broadway as it goes down a hill, hence the photos from below. The house has nice views of the Hudson river valley, but they were obstructed somewhat in the late 1960s when urban blight projects bulldozed entire city blocks of incredible brick rowhouses from the 1840s-70s, and erected a new raised highway/bridge over the Rondout creek.
That two-story porch is crazy nutty! I love how it echoes the gambrel of the main house. I’ve never seen anything like it. I would place this about 1900, because of the porch craziness.
The “6 attached row houses a couple blocks from this house (all 1 ownership)” Petebklyn refers to were last purchased in Jan 2007. Interiors have been mostly renovated. Kingston has 2 very distinct, beautiful, intact (large) historic districts- see Brownstoner’s link above to Rondout Historic District. Wikipedia has good info. Kingston was #5 on Business Week Magazine’s 2007 list of “America’s best places for artists” (NYC was #4).