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Town of Saugerties, NY
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This house is an unaltered example of the residential style
that began to be built as farming became less a prime
employer and first generation off-the-farm began to
approach the road frontage of the farmland as an
automobile access to jobs in the factories of the village area.
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2005 Survey Landmark #3
Town of Saugerties, NY
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This is School number 3 on the 1875 Beers Atlas Map of the
Town. On this map the Town is divided into numbered
districts with the school numbers corresponding to these.
For instance, this school is in district 3 and the West
Saugerties school #12 is in number 12. Presumably these
date to the same period of construction. However, some, as
in the Veteran stone schoolhouse of 1842 and the Flatbush
school of 1890 seem to be earlier or replacements. The
frame structures were likely all of the same date.
This particular building, if it is the same footprint as the
original, was large by comparison to the other one-room
schoolhouses. If so, it would be of later construction. It is in
seriously abused condition as were many of the other
excessed structures sold by the consolidated district in the
1960’s. This, at least, is still standing. The Cedar Grove
schoolhouse was destroyed recently.
This schoolhouse does not appear to be a symbol on the
1963 USGS topo map. At the parcel location there is no
structure symbol at all. There is one further back and this
may have been a moved building.
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2005 Survey Landmark #4
Town of Saugerties, NY
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The ruin noted on this property along the stream that runs
through its middle is at the location on the Kingston
Commons survey map of 1803 designated “Old Mill of
Burhans”. This is a landmark within the northern boundary
on this survey but on land described as that of “Myer and
Wynkoop - Bounds of Kingston” on the 1811 division map.
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2005 Survey Landmark #6
Town of Saugerties, NY
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c 1790 Schoonmaker-Hoff Homestead
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302 High Falls Road
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A designated landmark
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CLICK HERE
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2005 Survey Landmark #10
Town of Saugerties, NY
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Michael McCabe Farm
This property would be best known as the school of the artist Abram August Champanier. It
functioned in this respect throughout the decades of the 1940's and 50's.
The Michael McCabe Farm is a prime example of a property that has gracefully transitioned from
the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Much of the local economy in this period went from a land
supported to a service oriented one. In the 1800's most farms were self-supporting through cash
crops and bluestone quarrying. Into the next century many survived as boarding houses for
summer visitors. Some of these visitors purchased farms as second residences. Locally, in the
Saugerties and Woodstock area these were often artists.
A. A. Champanier is typical of the successful artists from New York City that took up residence
here to run schools for the many summer art students attracted to the area by a community
centered on the Art Students League school in Woodstock. At various times he had his school in
Woodstock, Kingston and at this farm. After the farm his school was named the Saxton Falls School
of Art.
The deed to A. A. Champanier references Michael McCabe as the original owner of the
consolidated 3 lots (68 acres) it described. This is the reason for its name. Each of the McCabe lots in
turn referenced number designations of 6th Class lots in a division map of the Kingston Commons.
The single lot of these three that is now designated the Michael McCabe Farm is number 30 in the
6th Class. This is described as 23 19/100 acres and is the earliest one of McCabe's three purchases
(1852). Its description places the lot bordering the east side of the "Highway from Quarryville to the
Great Falls". A previous transfer to David Ransom from Ephram Myer puts the acreage at 28 1/2,
which is closer to the full lot size of the original Kingston Commons division map. This included
the land on the west side of the road.
The intact boundary walls that define the north and east borders of this farm are one of the most
important historical assets of the town. These are the only landmarks on the USGS topographical
map of Saugerties representing the 1804 distribution of the Kingston Commons. Their directions
and point of intersection make up the only physical reference for accurately finding all other
locations deeded out of that historic survey.
It is important to recognize that hundreds of similar stone walls filling similar functions are found
throughout the town. These walls are important because they are recorded on the USGS map and
thus are measurably placed as a topographical feature of the town.
The stone entry level of the Michael McCabe house was likely built at the time he made the 1852
purchase. It takes advantage of the ready supply of cut stone from the many active quarries nearby
in Quarryville. The Beers Atlas of 1875 places the house in its present location and under the name
"M. McCabe". The 1893 USGS, one of the first, also places this house. These make its relatively
secluded location an historically recognized feature of the town.
The house suffered a fire in 1989 but though changed in its upper floors has mostly retained the
texture and feel of the original inside and out. The acreage of the farm retains a quality of its rural
setting preserved by the sensitivity of its artist owners from A. A. Champanier on to the present.
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2005 Survey Landmark #11
Town of Saugerties, NY
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This is the Grant Cole House, page 15 (top) in the DAR
“Old Stone Houses” (1976)
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A designated landmark
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CLICK HERE
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Town of Saugerties, NY
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This appears to be the farm house location of an exclusion
on the Kingston Commons division map for the farm of
Hendrick Wells. That would place either a seasonal or
permanent structure on this land prior to the 1803 survey.
Clark VanVlierden House
The Clark VanVlierden house is on Clark VanVlierden
Road. The VanVlierden name relates to the pastor of the
Kaatsbaan Church in 1796 when it was incorporated
separate from the Dutch Reformed Church of Kingston.
The Clark VanVlierden farm on this road was purchased in
1898 and was 74 1/2 acres. The present house is situated on
a lot of the Kingston Commons division map that aligns
with the present road and a tributary (171-11-13) of the
Plattekill Creek running parallel to each other.
The house is that of Zachariah Mower on the 1875 Beers
Atlas map. Mower's deed references Richard B. Legg. Both
Mower and Legg documents reference a premises. The
earliest mention of the land relates to a division of the large
Burhans Farm among relatives that had likely worked it
cooperatively up to 1825. Because the lot is unnumbered
and excluded from the square grid on the Kingston
Commons map it likely had a dwelling that preceded the
1803 survey for the division map.
The present house is well maintained in the same
functionality as would have been familiar to Clark
VanVlierden in 1898. Clark VanVlierden was a farmer
supplying local produce to the boarding house trade. This
was a stable occupation for farms from the 1890's on up
through the 1920's. As a homage to this rural tradition this
house is an admirable landmark.
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