Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House
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Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House
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Front (east) elevation, 2008
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| Location | New Paltz, NY |
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| Nearest city | Poughkeepsie |
| Coordinates | 41°45′38″N 74°5′11″W / 41.76056°N 74.08639°WCoordinates: 41°45′38″N 74°5′11″W / 41.76056°N 74.08639°W |
| Area | 5 acres (20,000 m2) |
| Built | 1786 |
| Architectural style | Dutch Colonial |
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| Added to NRHP | July 23, 1999 |
The Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House is located on Huguenot Street in the Town of New Paltz, New York, United States. It was built in 1786 by Hasbrouck, grandson of Jean Hasbrouck, one of the original Huguenot settlers of the New Paltz area in the late 17th century, after he had moved out of the family home, two miles (3.2 km) to the south in what is today the Huguenot Street Historic District. A descendant of his lives in the house today, and it is believed to be the only 18th-century stone house in the New Paltz area continuously owned by the family that first built it.
Hasbrouck's house shows sophistication and refinement befitting a large landholder who served as town supervisor and later in the American Revolutionary War. It is the culmination of the Dutch/Belgian-style stone houses that had been built all over Ulster County during the preceding century. His descendants found the house somewhat confining and, over several different generations, modified it in ways that reflected the changing tastes of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The house is located on a 5-acre (20,000 m2) lot on the west side of the street. There are several outbuildings from the former farm, no longer in use for their original purpose.
Its original section is the front block, a one-and-a-half-story with 20-inch (510 mm) thick load-bearing stone walls. A porch covers the front entrance between two of the three pairs of windows; the upper story has two large, wooden gabled dormers added later, between the three small shed dormers remaining from the original house. In the rear is another later addition, a section called the "outlet", after the Dutch "uitlayt", a one-story stone enclosure 12 feet (3.7 m) wide across the entire rear section, with its own basement.
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