ALBANY – The New York State Board of Historic Preservation has recommended
six properties in the region to the State and National Registers of Historic
Places. They are among 19 statewide nominated to the historic status.
In Dutchess County, Attlebury Schoolhouse in Stanford was nominated. Constructed
in 1910 after the hamlet of Attlebury’s 19th Century school burned
in an accidental fire, the one-room, frame schoolhouse served not only
as a center of education, but also a hub for the rural community.
In Orange County, Bodine’s Tavern in Montgomery was recommended.
The small house and tavern was built around 1809 by James Bodine to cater
to traffic along the newly chartered Minisink and Montgomery Turnpike.
In Sullivan County, Callicoon Downtown Historic District in Callicoon
was chosen. After a New York & Erie Railroad depot opened in 1848,
the hamlet prospered as a local service center, river landing and railroad
stop during the period when the population and economy of the Delaware
Valley and adjoining Catskills were reaching their peak.
The Fitch Brothers Bluestone Company Office in Kingston was nominated
in Ulster County. Built in 1870, the Second Empire-style building constructed
of bluestone served the bluestone quarrying, transportation, processing,
shipping business that employed over 1,000 men at its height and was a
cornerstone of the local economy.
In Westchester County, the Westchester & Boston Highbrook Avenue Bridge
in Pelham was completed in 1911. The early example of a reinforced concrete-arch
bridge is a fragment of the former railway, which was inaugurated in 1912
as a subsidiary of the New Haven Railroad, but which failed to survive
in the 1930.
