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Balding Avenue Historic District

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In the 1900s, 4 and 11 Balding closed out this building boom. The other corner lot at Mansion Street, 1 Balding, was finally built on in 1924. There has been no significant construction or modification since.
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style, were built in 1872. Six more followed, mainly in the middle of the block, during the rest of the 1870s. Most of the district was built out over the 1880s and '90s. Local architect
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of every house with a Balding address in that corridor. The southern end is just at the northern boundary of downtown Poughkeepsie, with several other historic buildings. The
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An 1867 map of the city lists Balding Avenue as a proposed street. It must have been built shortly thereafter, as the first houses on it, 14 and 27 Balding, both in the
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The district consists of Balding Avenue between its southern end at Mansion Street and the next intersection to the north at Marshall Street, and the
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is right on the corner (it was excluded from the district because it was a different size and shape from the Balding houses), and next to it is the
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to the district. It was built in 1924, after the district's period of significance, two decades after all of the other houses had been completed.
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Within the district, the houses are of similar designs, ranging from two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half stories in height. All have
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is located along the street of the same name, between Mansion and Marshall streets, in
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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neighborhood, and its houses still reflect that. It was listed on 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 Poughkeepsie, New York
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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

Balding Avenue Historic District is located in New York
Balding Avenue Historic District is located in the United States
Poughkeepsie, New York
41°22′29″N 73°55′35″W / 41.37472°N 73.92639°W / 41.37472; -73.92639
Percival M. Lloyd
Victorian
MPS
82001120
Poughkeepsie, New York
historic districts
middle class
National Register of Historic Places
lots
Queen Anne Style
house at 73 Mansion
Poughkeepsie post office
offices
Poughkeepsie Journal
clapboard
siding
Victorian
architectural styles
Second Empire
Queen Anne
ornament
Academy Street
Garfield Place

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