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Main Street–Albertson Street–Park Place Historic District

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lines and streets. It begins at the intersection of Main Street and Route 9, including all buildings fronting on Main for the two blocks west to Park Place. All the buildings on Park between Main and Albertson streets to the south are included, as well as some buildings at the west end of Albertson.
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In the 20th century, the rise of the estates, the growth the area experienced after Franklin Roosevelt became President and spent his vacations in the area and the rise of the automobile changed the geography of downtown Hyde Park. Main Street was still
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Its buildings were the core of Hyde Park in the 19th century, before later development and expansion shifted the center of Hyde Park to its current location just to the northeast. Many are in their original condition. In 1993 it was recognized as a
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grew to the point they played a major role in the local economy, and their workers resided in the houses. This culminated in 1927 with the Roosevelt Library's construction.
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along the east bank of the Hudson was known as Hyde Park as early as the 1730s, but remained largely unsettled until the 1760s, when the first large
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that were initially used as summer residences were established. By the end of the century, both the present center of Hyde Park and
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in 1821. Fifteen years later, in 1836, Main Street established itself as a short route between what was then the
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wide rather than the customary five, since the lots were narrow. Later on, in the late 1860s, two houses had
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Memorial Library at 2 Main Street, constructed of fieldstone in 1927 at the behest of Roosevelt's son
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houses and their outbuildings built between 1840 and 1860, a time of slow transition between the
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This includes 36 buildings and structures in all, only six of which are not considered
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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The 1927 Hyde Park Free Library, the newest contributing property in the district
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Dutchess County, New York
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in the 1930s; at that time Roosevelt spearheaded the construction of the
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at the crossroads of what was now Route 9 and Market, where it joined a
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The most significant exception is the newest contributing property, the
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York
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Main Street–Albertson Street–Park Place Historic District
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is located in the residential neighborhood just west of
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The irregularly-shaped district boundaries are mostly
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


Hyde Park
NY
Poughkeepsie
41°47′24″N 73°56′14″W / 41.79000°N 73.93722°W / 41.79000; -73.93722
Federal
Italianate
Greek Revival
93000856
US 9
Hyde Park
historic district
National Register of Historic Places
lot
contributing properties
frame
Federal
Greek Revival
architectural styles
vernacular
James Roosevelt
Franklin
parsonage
A light brown one-story three-bay stone building with a hipped shingled roof and mature oak trees on either side. On its front door a white sign reads "Hyde Park Free Library"
Poughkeepsie
estates
Staatsburg

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