Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District
The Mill Street - North Clover Street Historic District is a conservation district, between Mill Street, Main Street and North Clover Street to the west of the City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It is a 10.8 hectare area between U.S. Highway 9 and the Downtown Poughkeepsies on the high banks of the Hudson River. Within the boundaries of the district are 139 historic buildings and very few new buildings.
The district was established in 1972 entered in the National Register of Historic Places. As the Union to the south lies Street Historic District remained this district since the 19th century unchanged, but to grow it and began to develop. When the district was entered in the register, several old quarters were demolished in Poughkeepsie; this was part of an urban renewal program. This Historic District was established in order to preserve the building, can that should not be demolished. Two blocks of historic buildings along Main Street and North Bridge were originally left out because they should also be razed to the ground. These plans were dropped and the boundaries of the district were extended in 1987 to those areas.
Geography
The historic district has a horseshoe shape. He touches the south in two areas, the Main Street and its two parts are joined at the Mill Street in the north. This limit has been set for the most part, when the district was included in the Register in 1972.
The terrain rises from U.S. Highway 9 from to the western edge of the center of Poughkeepsie gently. To the west of the District Church of the Holy Comforter and the houses on Davies Place closes directly opposite one, in the north of Wheaton Park. All the properties on North Clover Street are also included, with the exception of the southwest corner at the intersection with Main Street. The houses 105-115 Main Street in the east part of the expansion of 1987.
In the north, the district narrowed and there is only one property on the south side of Mill Street, widened after the intersection with the North Perry Street but again and even includes some homes on Charles Street one further north. Two blocks North Bridge Street are within the boundary, as well as short -adjacent sections of Charles and Mansion Street. South of the intersection is the other later as district added area.
The eastern half ends on the north by the southern road from the Mansion Street and leads back to the rear of the building on the west side of Washington Street to Mill Street. Then he closes this road to a Main Street. The Main Street crosses the boundary of the district at Vassar Home for Aged Men, and thence to the back of the eastern riparian land to North Bridge Street. The majority of Vassar Street and Lafayette Street are within the limit.
Most of the buildings in the Historic District are residential buildings, including are a few churches and other institutional buildings. Many are built of brick, often in the style of the Second Empire, its use is not common with this building material otherwise. Among them are mingled in the Federal-style houses and some neoclassical buildings, the most important of these is the Second Baptist Church, Poughkeepsies only remaining church in this style.
The only commercial areas of the district are on Main Street and the intersection of Mill and North Clover Street. Wheaton Park is the largest open space in the district, the demolition of buildings in the past has meant that some parcels are vacant.
History
Baltus Van Kleeck, a Dutch settlers built rough stones 1702 the first house in the area that became the city of Poughkeepsie later. It was on a path from which the Mill Street emerged, near the present-day intersection of Vassar Street. Mill Street was one of the first ways that led to the river from the settlement. This path grew to a permanent road and the settlement grew. The construction of the Hudson River Railroad, which passes to the west, increased in the 1850s, the prosperity of the inhabitants of this district, which had developed in the mid -19th century to the center of Poughkeepsie. All of the historic buildings of the historic district created 1840-1875.
Matthew Vassar and his descendants have influenced these Entwicklumg. The property of the family and their residence was the Vassar Street name, where was the largest part of the family estates. They tore down a 1835 Van Kleecks house.
Since the land on which the Second Baptist Church was located, was owned by this family, designated to this building as " Vassar Temple " - favored by the colonnaded facade and use as a synagogue after the Civil War. The nephews Vassars built in the 1880s, the eclectic Vassar Institute and Vassar Home for Aged Men, in turn, on land that belonged to the family, continuing the traditions of the family in education and the bounties.
The district remained largely unchanged in a large part of the 20th century and has been spared from urban renewal programs due to the use of local preservationists. The deletion of further renewal plans and the renunciation of the demolition of old houses eventually leads 1987 expansion of the Historic District.
Contributing properties with private entry
Five contributing buildings within the boundaries of the district were separately entered in the register before the National Education:
- Church of the Holy Comforter: The Neo-Gothic church was built in 1860 on Davies Place. Originally designed by Richard Upjohn building was a Episcopal Church, today it is an Anglo- Catholic church.
- Italian Center: The red brick Victorian house serves as a place of Italian-American Association.
- Second Baptist Church: The only remaining neo-classical church in the City at the intersection of Vassar and Mill Street.
- Vassar Home for Aged Men: Built in 1880 and earlier retirement home at the intersection of Vassar and Main Street is now the seat of the Cunneen - Hackett Arts Center and some local non-profit organizations.
- Vassar Institute: The eclectic brick building built in 1882 is located opposite the former retirement home and is the main building of the Arts Center.