The Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture July – December 2016 Newsletter Vol. 19, No. 7-12 HVVA is a not-for-profit corporation formed to study and preserve the vernacular architecture and material culture of the Hudson Valley Peter Sinclair Founder, Trustee Emeritus West Hurley, Ulster County, NY Robert Sweeney – President Kingston, Ulster County, NY
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[email protected] Karen Markisenis Corresponding Secretary & Treasurer Fig. 1 Kingston, Ulster County, NY – Hauver-Sleight House, Schoolhouse Rd., Clinton, ca. 1760 and later.
[email protected] Photo by Neil Larson, 2013. Michele VanHoesen Recording Secretary Highland, Ulster County, NY The German House Issue
[email protected] John Stevens – Past President The November 2016 HVVA Study Tour focused on 18th-century German Senior Architectural Historian houses in Clinton and Rhinebeck, Dutchess County. The first stop was Hurley, Ulster County, NY made at the Hauver-Sleight House, which contains compelling evidence
[email protected] of a traditional two-room-plan dwelling in its central, two-story section Neil Larson – Newsletter Editor (Fig. 1) Woodstock, Ulster County, NY . Frederick Hauver’s name is mentioned in a few records from the
[email protected] period, but not on deeds; he probably was a leaseholder on lands owned Elliott Bristol – Trustee by patentee John Crooke of Hyde Park before they were sold-off by Tivoli, Dutchess County, NY Crooke’s heirs. A second story and wings were added to the original
[email protected] house in various stages after the farm was purchased by Hendrick Jim Decker – Trustee Hurley, Ulster County, NY Sleight, a Kingston native who married Mary Van Vliet of Pleasant Plains
[email protected] in 1792.