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An Architectural Leap Forward

1799 House on Huguenot Street in New Palts, NY - Photo

The 1799 House was built by Ezekiel Elting as a home and store.

Huguenot Street is known as America's oldest street because it was continuously inhabited from the time of the Huguenots' first settlement. In addition to the stone homes built by the Huguenot settlers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, visitors will see other architectural periods represented.

The 1799 House, built by Ezekiel Elting more than a century after the Huguenots' arrival, was both a home and store. It was built in the early Georgian, or Anglo-Dutch, architectural style. Its original gambrel roof was destroyed in the blizzard of 1888.

Walk Through History on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York
A New Start
An Architectural Leap Forward
Still Standing
An Old Stone Well
Find Your Way to Huguenot Street

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