Anthony Yelverton House

Anthony Yelverton House
The Yelverton House with its NYS Historical Marker, July 2017
Location39 Maple Ave.,
Highland, New York
Coordinates41°43′1″N 73°57′5″W / 41.71694°N 73.95139°W / 41.71694; -73.95139
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1754
NRHP reference No.83001823[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1983

The Anthony Yelverton House is a historic house located at 39 Maple Avenue Highland, Ulster County, New York.

Description and history

It is a 1+12-story, three-bay wide frame structure built about 1754. It is built into the hillside. It features a two-story porch spanning the full width of the building. It is the only surviving structure from "Yelverton's Landing", and once served as a tavern, storehouse, and private residence.[2]

Anthony Yelverton was a Poughkeepsie businessman. From this building and adjacent sawmill, Yelverton developed the area called both Yelverton's Landing and New Paltz Landing because a road connected it to New Paltz, further west. It became both a community in its own right and a Hudson River "port" for commerce from the New Paltz area.[3][4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1983.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Neil Larson (August 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Anthony Yelverton House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved March 20, 2010. See also: "Accompanying seven photos".
  3. ^ Labrise, Megan (June 20, 2011). "Fires and ice: The history of Highland Landing". Hudson Valley Times. Archived from the original on September 8, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  4. ^ Harris, Kandy (August 22, 2014). "Anthony Yelverton House in Highland, $89,000". Upstater. Retrieved July 5, 2017.