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Dutchess County, New York

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—digitized titles
272historic places
—earliest paper
1683formed
295,911pop. 2020
109cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 272 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 8 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Hyde Park.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for New York is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Dutchess titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

174 of 272 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

272 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Academy Street Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1982
Adriance Memorial LibraryPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Akin Free LibraryPawlingBuilding1991
Amrita ClubPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Astor Home for ChildrenRhinebeckBuilding1987
Attlebury SchoolhouseStanfordBuilding2016
Bain Commercial BuildingWappingers FallsBuilding1984
Bain, F.R., HousePoughkeepsieBuilding2016
Balding Avenue Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1982
Bangall Post OfficeBangallBuilding2014
Bannerman's Island ArsenalFishkillBuilding1982
Bard Infant School and St. James ChapelHyde ParkBuilding1993
Barrett HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Barrett, Oliver, HouseMillertonBuilding2000
Barringer FarmhouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Beacon Engine Company No. 1 FirehouseBeaconBuilding2004
Beckwith, Walter, HouseStanfordDistrict2016
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' CemeteryLeGrangevilleBuilding1989
Benner HouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Bergh-Stoutenburgh HouseHyde ParkBuilding1972
Beth David SynagogueAmeniaBuilding2002
Bloomvale Historic DistrictSalt PointDistrict1991
Bogardus-DeWindt HouseBeaconBuilding1993
Booth, O. H., Hose CompanyPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Boughton/Haight HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Brett, Madam Catharyna, HomesteadBeaconBuilding1976
Brower, Abraham, HouseNew HamburgBuilding1987
Brower, Adolph, HouseNew HamburgBuilding1987
Building at 73 Mansion St.PoughkeepsieBuilding1997
BykenhulleHopewell JunctionBuilding1991
CLEARWATER (Sloop)PoughkeepsieStructure2004
Campbell, Dr. Cornelius Nase, HouseStanfordvilleBuilding2007
Carman, Cornelius, HouseChelseaBuilding1987
Cedarcliff GatehousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Chelsea Grammar SchoolChelseaBuilding1987
Church Street RowPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Church of the Holy ComforterPoughkeepsieBuilding1972
Clark HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Clark, Ezra, HouseMillertonBuilding1985
Clinton Corners Friends ChurchClinton CornersBuilding1989
Clinton HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Coleman Station Historic DistrictMillertonDistrict1993
Collingwood Opera House and Office BuildingPoughkeepsieBuilding1977
Collyer, Capt. Moses W., HouseChelseaBuilding1987
Corlies-Ritter-Hart HousePoughkeepsieBuilding2014
Cox FarmhouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Creek Meeting House and Friends' CemeteryClinton CornersBuilding1989
Crum Elbow Meeting House and CemeteryEast ParkBuilding1989
Dakin-Coleman FarmMillertonBuilding2000
De Peyster, Watts, Fireman's HallTivoliBuilding1989
Delamater, Henry, HouseRhinebeckBuilding1973
Dixon HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Dover Stone ChurchDover PlainsSite2014
DuBois FarmhousePoughkeepsieBuilding2017
DuBois, Peter C., HouseBeaconBuilding2004
Duchess Company Superintendent's HouseWappingers FallsBuilding1984
Dutchess County Court HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Dutchess ManorFishkillBuilding1982
Dwight-Hooker Avenue Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1982
Eastman TerracePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Elmendorph InnRed HookBuilding1978
Ethol HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
EustatiaBeaconBuilding1979
Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. PeterRhinebeckDistrict1975
Evergreen LandsRhinebeckBuilding1987
Farmer's and Manufacturer's BankPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
First Baptist ChurchPoughkeepsieBuilding2001
First Presbyterian ChurchPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
First Presbyterian Church RectoryPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Fishkill Supply Depot SiteFishkillSite1974
Fishkill Village DistrictFishkillDistrict1973
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High SchoolHyde ParkBuilding2011
Fredenburg HouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Free Church ParsonageRhinecliffBuilding1987
Freer HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Garfield Place Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1972
Glebe HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Graham-Brush Log HousePine PlainsBuilding1999
GrasmereRhinebeckDistrict1987
Gregory HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Grey HookPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Grinnell - Satterlee HouseWappingers FallsBuilding2026
Grove, TheRhinebeckBuilding1987
Halfway DinerRed HookBuilding1988
Harlow RowPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Hasbrouck HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Haxtun-Tower HouseHopewell JunctionBuilding2016
Heermance FarmhouseRed HookBuilding1980
Heermance House and Law OfficeRhinecliffBuilding1987
Hendricks, John, House and Dutch BarnStaatsburgBuilding1984
Hershkind HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
HiddenhurstMillertonBuilding1991
Hillside Methodist ChurchRhinebeckBuilding1987
Hoffman HousePoughkeepsieBuilding2007
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic SiteHyde ParkDistrict1966
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site (Boundary Increase)Hyde ParkDistrict2014
Hopewell Junction DepotHopewell JunctionBuilding2021
Horton, Joseph, HouseNew HackensackBuilding1988
Howard Mansion and Carriage HouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Howland LibraryBeaconBuilding1973
Hudson River Heritage Historic District NHLStaatsburgDistrict1990
Hudson River State Hospital, Main Building NHLPoughkeepsieBuilding1989
Hyde Park Elementary SchoolHyde ParkBuilding1993
Hyde Park FirehouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Hyde Park Railroad StationHyde ParkBuilding1981
Indian Rock SchoolhouseAmeniaBuilding2002
InnisfreeMillbrookDistrict2019
Italian CenterPoughkeepsieBuilding1972
Kane, John, HousePawlingBuilding1980
Kimlin Cider MillPoughkeepsieBuilding2003
Kip-Beekman-Heermance Site (A027-16-0223)RhinecliffSite1989
LaGrange District SchoolFreedom PlainsBuilding2013
Lady Washington Hose CompanyPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Langdon Estate GatehouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Locust Grove NHLPoughkeepsieBuilding1966
Lower Main Street Historic DistrictBeaconDistrict1988
Luckey, Platt & Company Department StorePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
LynfeldWashingtonBuilding1987
Mader HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Main Building, Vassar College NHLPoughkeepsieBuilding1973
Main Mall Historic District (Additional Documentation)PoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Main Mall Historic District (Boundary Increase)PoughkeepsieDistrict2024
Main Street Historic DistrictMillertonDistrict2010
Main Street Historic DistrictNew HamburgDistrict1987
Main Street-Albertson Street-Park Place Historic DistrictHyde ParkDistrict1993
MaizefieldRed HookBuilding1973
MansakenningRhinebeckBuilding1987
Maple GrovePoughkeepsieBuilding2001
Maples, TheRhinebeckBuilding1987
Market Street RowPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Marquardt FarmWurtemburgBuilding1987
Martin, Hendrick, HouseRed HookBuilding2007
McComb, Peter and Karen, HousePoughkeepsieBuilding2009
Melius-Bentley HousePine PlainsBuilding1982
Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1972
Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)PoughkeepsieDistrict1987
Montgomery Place NHLTivoliDistrict1975
Moore HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Moore, J. W., HouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Morschauser, Charles, HousePoughkeepsieBuilding2014
Morton Memorial LibraryRhinecliffBuilding1987
Mount Beacon Incline Railway and Power HouseBeacon/FishkillStructure1982
Mount GulianBeaconDistrict1982
Mt. Beacon Fire Observation TowerBeaconStructure2009
Mulhern HouseWappingers FallsBuilding1984
Mulrien HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Mumford, Lewis, HouseAmeniaBuilding1999
Murphy Grist MillBeekmanBuilding2015
National Biscuit Company Carton Making and Printing PlantBeaconBuilding2003
Neher-Elseffer HouseRhinebeckBuilding2003
New Guinea Community SiteHyde ParkSite2018
New York State ArmoryPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Newcomb-Brown EstatePleasant ValleyBuilding1988
Niagara Engine HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Nine Partners Meeting House and CemeteryMillbrookBuilding1989
O'Brien General Store and Post OfficeRhinecliffBuilding1987
Oblong Friends MeetinghousePawlingBuilding1973
Oswego Meeting House and Friends' CemeteryMoore's MillBuilding1989
Parker Training Academy Dutch BarnRed HookBuilding2007
Pelton MillPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Phillips HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Pier, Jan, HouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Pilgrim's Progress Road BridgeRhinebeckStructure1987
Pines, ThePine PlainsBuilding1983
Post-Williams HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City InfirmaryPoughkeepsieBuilding1978
Poughkeepsie City HallPoughkeepsieBuilding1972
Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Hooker Avenue)PoughkeepsieBuilding1989
Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Montgomery Street)PoughkeepsieBuilding1989
Poughkeepsie Railroad BridgePoughkeepsieStructure1979
Poughkeepsie Railroad StationPoughkeepsieBuilding1976
Poughkeepsie Savings BankPoughkeepsieBuilding1998
Poughkeepsie Trust CompanyPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Poughkeepsie Underwear FactoryPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Progue HouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Pultz FarmhouseWurtemburgBuilding1987
Pulver-Bird, HouseStanfordBuilding2008
Quaker Lane FarmsHyde ParkBuilding2003
Reformed Dutch Church of Fishkill LandingBeaconDistrict1988
Reformed Dutch Church of PoughkeepsiePoughkeepsieBuilding2008
Reformed Dutch Church, Parsonage and Lecture HallHyde ParkBuilding1993
Reynolds HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Rhinebeck Village Historic DistrictRhinebeckDistrict1979
Rhinebeck Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)RhinebeckDistrict2021
Rhinecliff HotelRhinecliffBuilding1987
Riverside Methodist Church and ParsonageRhinecliffBuilding1987
Rock LedgeRhinebeckDistrict1989
Rogers, Archibald, EstateHyde ParkBuilding1993
RokebyBarrytownDistrict1975
Rombout HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Roosevelt Point Cottage and BoathouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Roosevelt, Eleanor, National Historic SiteHyde ParkDistrict1980
Roosevelt, Isaac, HouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Rosenlund Estate BuildingsPoughkeepsieDistrict1991
Rymph, George, HouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Sague HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Saint Mark's Episcopal ChurchChelseaBuilding1987
Salisbury Turnpike BridgeRhinebeckStructure1987
Second Baptist ChurchPoughkeepsieBuilding1972
Second Baptist Church of DoverDover PlainsBuilding2010
Shay's Warehouse and StableNew HamburgBuilding1987
Shay, William, Double HouseNew HamburgBuilding1987
Shear HomesteadLagrangevilleBuilding2021
Sipperly Lown FarmhouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Slate Quarry Road Dutch BarnRhinebeckBuilding1987
Smith Metropolitan AME Zion ChurchPoughkeepsieBuilding1991
Smithfield Presbyterian ChurchAmeniaBuilding2012
Soldiers' Memorial Fountain and ParkPoughkeepsieSite2017
South Hamilton Street RowPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
St. Luke's Episcopal Church ComplexBeaconBuilding2008
St. Margaret's HomeRed HookBuilding2006
St. Paul's (Zion's) Evangelical Lutheran ChurchRed HookBuilding1998
St. Paul's Episcopal ChurchPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and CemeteryWurtemburgBuilding1987
St. Thomas' Episcopal ChurchAmenia UnionBuilding2005
Standard Gage Company PlantPoughkeepsieBuilding2024
Steenburg TavernRhinebeckBuilding1987
Stone Street Historic DistrictNew HamburgDistrict1987
StonecrestRhinebeckBuilding1987
Stony Kill FarmFishkillBuilding1980
Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff HouseEast FishkillBuilding2008
Stoutenburgh, William, HouseHyde ParkBuilding1972
Strawberry HillRhinebeckBuilding1987
Sutherland CemeteryStanfordvilleSite2020
Sylvan Lake Rock ShelterSylvan LakeSite1974
Tabor-Wing HouseDover PlainsBuilding1982
Thompson HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Thorne Memorial SchoolMillbrookBuilding1996
Tioronda BridgeBeaconStructure1976
Tioronda Estate-Craig House Historic DistrictBeaconDistrict2023
Titus, Elias, HouseRed Oaks MillBuilding2006
Top Cottage NHLHyde ParkBuilding1997
Tousey, Benjamin C., HouseClintonBuilding1994
Traver HouseRhinebeckBuilding1987
Traver, J. E., FarmRhinebeckBuilding1987
Traver, John H., FarmWurtemburgBuilding1987
Travis HousePoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Trinity Methodist ChurchBeaconBuilding2010
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and RectoryPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
US Post Office-BeaconBeaconBuilding1988
US Post Office-Hyde ParkHyde ParkBuilding1989
US Post Office-PoughkeepsiePoughkeepsieBuilding1989
US Post Office-RhinebeckRhinebeckBuilding1989
US Post Office-Wappingers FallsWappingers FallsBuilding1989
Union Free SchoolNew HamburgBuilding1987
Union Street Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1971
Upper-Mill Street Historic DistrictPoughkeepsieDistrict1982
Van Vredenburg FarmRhinebeckBuilding1987
Van Wyck-Wharton HouseFishkillBuilding1972
Vanderbilt Lane Historic DistrictHyde ParkDistrict1993
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic SiteHyde ParkDistrict1966
Vassar College Observatory NHLPoughkeepsieBuilding1991
Vassar Home for Aged MenPoughkeepsieBuilding1972
Vassar InstitutePoughkeepsieBuilding1972
Vassar, Matthew, Estate NHLPoughkeepsieBuilding1969
Vassar-Warner RowPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Violet Avenue SchoolPoughkeepsieBuilding2014
Wales HouseHyde ParkBuilding1993
Wallace Company Department StorePoughkeepsieBuilding2024
Wappingers Falls Historic DistrictWappingers FallsDistrict1984
Warren Masonic Lodge #32SchultzvilleBuilding2007
Webutuck Agricultural Valley Historic DistrictAmeniaDistrict2024
WethersfieldAmeniaDistrict2021
Wheeler Hill Historic DistrictWappingerDistrict1991
Wheeler, Thomas N., FarmMillertonBuilding2000
Williams FarmRhinebeckBuilding1987
Winans-Huntting HousePine PlainsBuilding2017
Windswept FarmClintonBuilding1989
Winegar, Hendrik, HouseAmeniaBuilding1975
Young Men's Christian AssociationPoughkeepsieBuilding1982
Zion Memorial ChapelNew HamburgBuilding1987
Zion Pilgrim Methodist Episcopal Church SiteFishkillSite2014

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dutchess was formed in 1683 (1683-11-01) from unknown / original county.

DUTCHESS created from non-county area in New York.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dutchess County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

297k171k45k179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
45,26647,77546,61552,39864,94179,18481,67091,747120,542136,781176,008245,055280,150295,911

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Eleanor RooseveltNatioinal Historic Site13.2 km
Home of Franklin D. RooseveltNational Historic Site16.2 km
Vanderbilt MansionNational Historic Site17.3 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

109 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 109 listed
NameLatLon
Akin Family Burial Ground41.56011-73.54569
Amenia Burying Ground - Red Meeting House Cemetery41.86048-73.54773
Amenia Island Cemetery41.85171-73.55112
Amenia Union Cemetery41.82559-73.50993
Ballard - Milltown Road Cemetery41.51884-73.69712
Bangall Baptist Cemetery Number 241.88335-73.69522
Bangall Baptist Church Cemetery Number 141.88778-73.69784
Bard College Cemetery42.02305-73.9052
Beekman Cemetery41.61324-73.67986
Beth - El Cemetery41.72512-73.84579
Bethel Baptist Cemetery41.52971-73.79035
Bethel Cemetery41.95235-73.634
Bryan Cemetery41.93233-73.59496
Calvary Cemetery41.69055-73.89333
Carpenter Burying Ground41.9182-73.62948
Chestnut Ridge Friends Cemetery41.73251-73.62786
Clove Cemetery41.66134-73.6766
Coleman Station Cemetery41.90428-73.52821
Crum Elbow Cemetery41.80474-73.86608
Evergreen Cemetery41.98416-73.65496
Fairview Cemetery41.51036-73.94236
Ferris Cemetery41.98549-73.74661
First Reformed Protestant Dutch Cemetery41.53618-73.90039
Fishkill Cemetery41.54079-73.90683
Flagler Cemetery41.58818-73.69776
Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site Cemetery41.7681-73.9348
Friends Cemetery41.74644-73.82369
Friends Creek Meeting Cemetery41.83131-73.76225
Green Haven Cemetery41.58608-73.71608
Haight Cemetery41.7604-73.65669
Hoag Family Burial Ground41.64365-73.59591
Hyde Park Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery41.7924-73.93581
Irondale Cemetery41.95262-73.51581
Knickerbocker Burial Ground41.97531-73.60439
La Grange Rural Cemetery41.69147-73.86291
Mead Cemetery41.52304-73.73972
Middlebush Cemetery41.58742-73.9094
Milan Cemetery41.93291-73.79197
Netherwood Baptist Cemetery41.79841-73.81884
Nine Partners Cemetery41.77678-73.68844
North East Center Burying Ground41.93077-73.53406
North East Friends Cemetery41.95478-73.63345
Northrup Burial Ground41.826-73.61902
Old Red - Madalin Church Cemetery42.06584-73.89661
Old Rhinebeck Cemetery41.95808-73.89267
Orthodox Friends - Upton Lake Cemetery41.8404-73.76216
Pawling Rural Cemetery41.56801-73.59505
Peters Cemetery41.72176-73.89764
Pitssbury Presbyterian - Washington Hollow Cemetery41.78143-73.75602
Pleasant Plains Presbyterian - Providence Cemetery41.85102-73.86257
Pleasant Valley Methodist Cemetery41.75049-73.8099
Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Cemetery41.74323-73.82727
Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery41.68297-73.93239
Quaker Burial Ground - Thorpe Cemetery41.96245-73.78776
Quaker Hill Cemetery41.58235-73.54334
Quaker Hill Cemetery41.55794-73.56376
Red Hook Methodist Burial Ground41.99697-73.87205
Rhinebeck Cemetery41.92039-73.91224
Rhinebeck Dutch Reformed Cemetery41.92322-73.91185
Rock City Cemetery41.97057-73.82246
Rombout Rural Cemetery41.54486-73.87195
Rowe Burial Ground41.95419-73.7672
Sacred Heart Cemetery41.99863-73.92665
Saint Denis Cemetery41.59749-73.74666
Saint James Episcopal Cemetery41.80096-73.9373
Saint Joachims Cemetery41.50842-73.94514
Saint Joachims Cemetery41.50038-73.9544
Saint John the Evangelist Church Cemetery42.00321-73.91271
Saint John's Cemetery41.56567-73.598
Saint John's Church Cemetery42.03131-73.84415
Saint Joseph Cemetery41.91907-73.94936
Saint Josephs Catholic Cemetery41.78609-73.69827
Saint Josephs Cemetery41.66951-73.92287
Saint Lukes Cemetery41.49795-73.96336
Saint Mary's Cemetery41.87222-73.69445
Saint Mary's Cemetery41.60488-73.92456
Saint Patrick's Catholic Cemetery41.95683-73.51157
Saint Paul's Church Cemetery42.06207-73.91654
Saint Paul's Episcopal Cemetery41.74718-73.81527
Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery41.99123-73.87726
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Fishkill Landing41.52093-73.98292

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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