Anthony Yelverton House

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

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
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1754
NRHP reference No.83001823[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1983

Description and history

It is a ​1 1⁄2-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. "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 2010-03-20. See also: "Accompanying seven photos".
  3. Labrise, Megan (20 June 2011). "Fires and ice: The history of Highland Landing". Hudson Valley Times. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. "Anthony Yelverton House in Highland, $89,000". Upstater. Retrieved 5 July 2017.


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