List of New York State Historic Sites
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State Historic Sites not designated National Historic Landmarks
New York State has 38 state-designated historic sites.Twenty-two are also National Historic Landmarks of the United States, and are described in List of National Historic Landmarks in New York. There are sixteen others. Some may be sites of national importance, which might have been NHL-eligible but, as state-owned and -administered sites, may have had lessened need for additional protection. Others may be of state-level but not national importance.
These 16 are:
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Caumsett State Historic Park Caumsett State Historic Park Caumsett State Historic Park is on Lloyd Neck, a peninsula extending into Long Island Sound, in the village of Lloyd Harbor, New York. Lloyd Neck was originally part of Queens County, New York.... |
Lloyd Harbor Lloyd Harbor, New York Lloyd Harbor is a village in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 3,675.The Village of Lloyd Harbor is in the Town of Huntington.-History:... |
Suffolk Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came... |
Estate home of Marshall Field III Marshall Field III Marshall Field III was an American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune and a leading financial supporter and founding board member of Saul Alinsky's community organizing network Industrial Areas Foundation.Born... |
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Clinton House State Historic Site Clinton House (Poughkeepsie) The Clinton House is an 18th-century Georgian stone building in the town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, USA, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982. It is a New York State Historic Site. The house was named for George Clinton,... |
Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie (city), New York Poughkeepsie is a city in the state of New York, United States, which serves as the county seat of Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie is located in the Hudson River Valley midway between New York City and Albany... |
Dutchess Dutchess County, New York Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488... |
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Grant Cottage State Historic Site Grant Cottage State Historic Site Grant Cottage State Historic Site, on the slope of Mount McGregor in Wilton, New York is an Adirondack mountain cottage first owned by banker Joseph W. Drexel. It was the site where Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885, and is a New York State Historic Site.... |
Wilton Wilton, New York Wilton is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 12,511 at the 2000 census.The Town of Wilton is in the northeastern part of the county, northeast of Saratoga Springs, which it borders.-History:... |
Saratoga Saratoga County, New York Saratoga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 219,607. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Ballston Spa... |
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Herkimer Home State Historic Site Herkimer Home State Historic Site Herkimer Home State Historic Site is a historic house museum in Herkimer County, New York, USA. Herkimer Home is in the north part of the Town of Danube, south of the Mohawk River.The site is north of the New York State Thruway.... |
Danube Danube, New York Danube is a town in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 1,098 at the 2000 census. Early Palatine German immigrants in the eighteenth century named the town after the Danube River in Europe.... |
Herkimer Herkimer County, New York Herkimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was created in 1791 north of the Mohawk River out of part of Montgomery County. As of the 2010 census, the population was 64,519. It is named after General Nicholas Herkimer, who died from battle wounds in 1777 after taking part... |
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Fort Ontario State Historic Site Fort Ontario Fort Ontario is a historic fort situated by the City of Oswego, in Oswego County, New York in the United States of America. It is owned by the state of New York and operated as a museum known as Fort Ontario State Historic Site.... |
Oswego Oswego, New York Oswego is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 18,142 at the 2010 census. Oswego is located on Lake Ontario in north-central New York and promotes itself as "The Port City of Central New York"... |
Oswego Oswego County, New York Oswego County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 Census, the estimated population was 122,109. The City of Oswego and the Village of Pulaski serve as the dual county seats in a two shire system of government... |
Fort held by the British until 1796; previous forts on site burned by Indians or Americans; only U.S. refuge of Jewish refugees during World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... |
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Lorenzo State Historic Site Lorenzo State Historic Site Lorenzo State Historic Site is a mansion built by Colonel John Linklaen, founder of the village of Cazenovia, NY. Colonel Linklaen was the agent of the Holland Land Company upon whose recommendation the Company purchased the tract of land where the village grew. The painted brick mansion, begun... |
Cazenovia Cazenovia, New York Cazenovia is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 6,481 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Theophilus Cazenove, an agent of the Holland Land Company.The Town of Cazenovia has a village also named Cazenovia... |
Madison Madison County, New York Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 73,442. It is named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America... |
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National Purple Heart Hall of Honor National Purple Heart Hall of Honor National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located along NY 300 in the Town of New Windsor, New York, less than two miles south of the Town of Newburgh line and not far from the City of Newburgh. It is a Purple Heart national registry of military personnel that were injured or killed during combat... |
New Windsor New Windsor, New York New Windsor is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was estimated at 25,244 in 2010 by the US Census.The Town of New Windsor is in the eastern part of the county, bordering the Town of Newburgh and the City of Newburgh.... |
Orange Orange County, New York Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located at the northern reaches of the New York metropolitan area. The county sits in the state's scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley... |
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New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, also known as New Windsor Cantonment, is located along NY 300 a mile north of Vails Gate in Orange County's Town of New Windsor. The site features reconstruction buildings of the final encampment of the Continental Army.Between June 1782 and October... |
Vails Gate Vails Gate, New York Vails Gate is a hamlet in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,319 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined... |
Orange Orange County, New York Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located at the northern reaches of the New York metropolitan area. The county sits in the state's scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley... |
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9 | Old Erie Canal State Historic Park Old Erie Canal State Historic Park Old Erie Canal State Historic Park is a part of the New York State Park system. It is a linear park encompassing a 36-mile segment of the original Erie Canal's Long Level section, and extends eastward from Butternut Creek in the town of Dewitt, New York, east of Syracuse, to just outside of the... |
Kirkville | Onondaga Onondaga County, New York Onondaga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 467,026. The county seat is Syracuse.Onondaga County is part of the Syracuse, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.... |
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Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, which includes the Coe Hall Historic House Museum, is an arboretum and state park covering over located in the Village of Upper Brookville in the town of Oyster Bay, New York.... |
Oyster Bay | Nassau Nassau County, New York Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532... |
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Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site is a historically important location in Jefferson County, New York, USA. The historic site is south of the Village of Sackets Harbor in the Town of Hounsfield... |
Sackets Harbor Sackets Harbor, New York Sackets Harbor is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,386 at the 2000 census. The village was named after land developer and owner Augustus Sackett, who founded it in the early 19th century.The Village of Sackets Harbor is within the western part of the... |
Jefferson Jefferson County, New York Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 116,229. It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was created in 1805... |
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Senate House State Historic Site Senate House State Historic Site The Senate House State Historic Site is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. New York state was established there in 1777, during the Revolutionary War.... |
Kingston Kingston, New York Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Ulster County, New York, USA. It is north of New York City and south of Albany. It became New York's first capital in 1777, and was burned by the British Oct. 16, 1777, after the Battles of Saratoga... |
Ulster Ulster County, New York Ulster County is a county located in the state of New York, USA. It sits in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 182,493. Recent population estimates completed by the United States Census Bureau for the 12-month period ending July 1 are at... |
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Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park | Canandaigua Canandaigua (city), New York Canandaigua is a city in Ontario County, New York, USA, of which it is the county seat. The population was 11,264 at the 2000 census... |
Ontario Ontario County, New York As of the census of 2000, there were 100,224 people, 38,370 households, and 26,360 families residing in the county. The population density was 156 people per square mile . There were 42,647 housing units at an average density of 66 per square mile... |
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14 | Staatsburgh State Historic Site Staatsburgh State Historic Site The Staatsburgh State Historic Site preserves a Beaux-Arts mansion designed by McKim, Mead, and White and the home's surrounding landscape in the hamlet ofStaatsburg, Dutchess County, New York, USA... |
Staatsburg Staatsburg, New York Staatsburg is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 911 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined... |
Dutchess Dutchess County, New York Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488... |
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Steuben Memorial State Historic Site Steuben Memorial State Historic Site The Steuben Memorial State Historic Site is a historic location and state park in the eastern part of Steuben, Oneida County, New York, that honors Baron von Steuben, the "Drillmaster of the American Revolution." The land in this part of Oneida County was part of a land grant made to von Steuben... |
Steuben Steuben, New York Steuben is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 1,172 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Baron von Steuben.... |
Oneida Oneida County, New York Oneida County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 234,878. The county seat is Utica. The name is in honor of the Oneida, an Iroquoian tribe that formerly occupied the region.... |
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Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site The Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state historic site in New York in the United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site preserves the birthplace of American poet Walt Whitman.-History:... |
Huntington Station Huntington Station, New York Huntington Station is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 29,910 at the 2000 census.... |
Suffolk Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came... |
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In New York State, there are 38 State Historic Sites. Twenty-two of these are also NHLs. The complete list is:
- Bennington Battlefield State Historic SiteBennington Battlefield State Historic SiteBennington Battlefield State Historic Site is the Rensselaer County, New York location where the Battle of Bennington occurred on the 16th of August 1777. Here, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts militia under General John Stark rebuffed a British attempt led by Colonel Friedrich Baum to...
(Bennington Battlefield NHL) - Caumsett State Historic ParkCaumsett State Historic ParkCaumsett State Historic Park is on Lloyd Neck, a peninsula extending into Long Island Sound, in the village of Lloyd Harbor, New York. Lloyd Neck was originally part of Queens County, New York....
- Clermont State Historic Site (Clermont Manor NHL)
- Clinton House State Historic SiteClinton House (Poughkeepsie)The Clinton House is an 18th-century Georgian stone building in the town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, USA, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982. It is a New York State Historic Site. The house was named for George Clinton,...
- Crailo State Historic SiteFort CrailoFort Crailo, also known as Yankee Doodle House or Crailo State Historic Site, is a historic, fortified brick manor house in Rensselaer, New York, United States which was originally part of a large patroonship held by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, c...
(Fort Crailo NHL) - Crown Point State Historic SiteFort Crown PointCrown Point, was a British fort built by the combined efforts of both British and Provincial troops in North America in 1759 at narrows on Lake Champlain on the border between modern New York State and Vermont...
(Fort Crown Point NHL and Fort Frederic NHL) - Darwin Martin House State Historic SiteDarwin D. Martin HouseThe Darwin D. Martin House Complex, also known as the Darwin Martin House State Historic Site, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built between 1903 and 1905...
(Darwin D. Martin House NHL) - Fort Montgomery State Historic Site (Fort Montgomery NHL)
- Fort Ontario State Historic SiteFort OntarioFort Ontario is a historic fort situated by the City of Oswego, in Oswego County, New York in the United States of America. It is owned by the state of New York and operated as a museum known as Fort Ontario State Historic Site....
- Ganondagan State Historic SiteGanondagan State Historic SiteGanondagan State Historic Site also known as Boughton Hill is a New York State Native American historic site in Ontario County, New York in the USA. The historic site is in the Town of Victor, southwest of the Village of Victor...
(Boughton Hill NHL) - Grant Cottage State Historic SiteGrant Cottage State Historic SiteGrant Cottage State Historic Site, on the slope of Mount McGregor in Wilton, New York is an Adirondack mountain cottage first owned by banker Joseph W. Drexel. It was the site where Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885, and is a New York State Historic Site....
- Herkimer Home State Historic SiteHerkimer Home State Historic SiteHerkimer Home State Historic Site is a historic house museum in Herkimer County, New York, USA. Herkimer Home is in the north part of the Town of Danube, south of the Mohawk River.The site is north of the New York State Thruway....
- Hyde Hall State HistoricHyde HallHyde Hall was the unusually large home—a neoclassical country mansion—of George Clarke, 1768–1835, heir of George Clarke ....
(Hyde Hall NHL) - John Brown Farm State Historic SiteJohn Brown Farm and GravesiteThe John Brown Farm and Gravesite was the home and is the final resting place of abolitionist John Brown.It is located on John Brown Road in North Elba near Lake Placid, New York, where John Brown moved in 1849 to lead freed slaves in farming...
(John Brown Farm and Gravesite NHL) - John Burroughs Memorial State Historic SiteWoodchuck LodgeWoodchuck Lodge, also known as John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site is in Roxbury in the western Catskills of Delaware County, New York, was a summertime home of naturalist John Burroughs. He is buried here, at the foot of a rock on which he played as a child...
(Woodchuck Lodge NHL) - John Jay State Historic Site (John Jay House NHL)
- Johnson Hall State Historic Site (Johnson Hall NHL)
- Knox's Headquarters State Historic SiteKnox's Headquarters State Historic SiteKnox's Headquarters State Historic Site, in the town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York, consists of the Georgian house of the Ellison family, built in 1754, and the grounds around it. It is located on Old Forge Hill Road, just south of Route 94 east of Vails Gate...
(Knox Headquarters NHL) - Lorenzo State Historic SiteLorenzo State Historic SiteLorenzo State Historic Site is a mansion built by Colonel John Linklaen, founder of the village of Cazenovia, NY. Colonel Linklaen was the agent of the Holland Land Company upon whose recommendation the Company purchased the tract of land where the village grew. The painted brick mansion, begun...
- National Purple Heart Hall of Fame
- New Windsor Cantonment State Historic SiteNew Windsor Cantonment State Historic SiteThe New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, also known as New Windsor Cantonment, is located along NY 300 a mile north of Vails Gate in Orange County's Town of New Windsor. The site features reconstruction buildings of the final encampment of the Continental Army.Between June 1782 and October...
- Olana State Historic SiteOlana State Historic SiteOlana State Historic Site was the home of Frederic Edwin Church , one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The centerpiece of Olana is an eclectic villa composed of many styles, difficult to categorize, which overlooks parkland and a working farm designed by the...
(Frederic Church House NHL) - Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic ParkCroton AqueductThe Croton Aqueduct or Old Croton Aqueduct was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842...
(Old Croton Aqueduct NHL) - Old Erie Canal State Historic ParkOld Erie Canal State Historic ParkOld Erie Canal State Historic Park is a part of the New York State Park system. It is a linear park encompassing a 36-mile segment of the original Erie Canal's Long Level section, and extends eastward from Butternut Creek in the town of Dewitt, New York, east of Syracuse, to just outside of the...
- Old Fort Niagara State Historic SiteFort NiagaraFort Niagara is a fortification originally built to protect the interests of New France in North America. It is located near Youngstown, New York, on the eastern bank of the Niagara River at its mouth, on Lake Ontario.-Origin:...
(Fort Niagara NHL) - Oriskany Battlefield State Historic SiteOriskany Battlefield State Historic SiteOriskany Battlefield State Historic Site is a historic site in Oneida County, New York, USA that marks the Battle of Oriskany, fought in 1777 during the American Revolution, one of the bloodiest engagements of the war....
(Oriskany Battlefield NHL) - Philipse Manor State Historic Site (Philipse Manor NHL)
- Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic ParkPlanting Fields Arboretum State Historic ParkPlanting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, which includes the Coe Hall Historic House Museum, is an arboretum and state park covering over located in the Village of Upper Brookville in the town of Oyster Bay, New York....
-- Coe Hall Historic House Museum - Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic SiteSackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic SiteSackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site is a historically important location in Jefferson County, New York, USA. The historic site is south of the Village of Sackets Harbor in the Town of Hounsfield...
- Schoharie Crossing State Historic SiteSchoharie Crossing State Historic SiteSchoharie Crossing State Historic Site, also known as Erie Canal National Historic Landmark, is a historic district that includes the ruins of the Erie Canal aqueduct over Schoharie Creek, and a long part of the Erie Canal, in the towns of Glen and Florida within Montgomery County, New York...
(Erie Canal NHL) - Schuyler Mansion State Historic SiteSchuyler MansionSchuyler Mansion is a historic house at 32 Catherine Street in Albany, New York, United States. The brick mansion is now a museum and an official National Historic Landmark. It was constructed from 1761 to 1762 for Philip Schuyler, later a general in the Continental Army and early U.S. Senator,...
(Schuyler Mansion NHL) - Senate House State Historic SiteSenate House State Historic SiteThe Senate House State Historic Site is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. New York state was established there in 1777, during the Revolutionary War....
- Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park
- Staatsburgh State Historic SiteStaatsburgh State Historic SiteThe Staatsburgh State Historic Site preserves a Beaux-Arts mansion designed by McKim, Mead, and White and the home's surrounding landscape in the hamlet ofStaatsburg, Dutchess County, New York, USA...
- Steuben Memorial State Historic SiteSteuben Memorial State Historic SiteThe Steuben Memorial State Historic Site is a historic location and state park in the eastern part of Steuben, Oneida County, New York, that honors Baron von Steuben, the "Drillmaster of the American Revolution." The land in this part of Oneida County was part of a land grant made to von Steuben...
- Stony Point Battlefield State Historic SiteStony Point BattlefieldStony Point Battlefield is the location of the 1779 Battle of Stony Point during the American Revolutionary War. It is a National Historic Landmark.The site was purchased and preserved in the late 1890s, and opened to the public in 1902....
(Stony Point Battlefield NHL) - Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic SiteWalt Whitman Birthplace State Historic SiteThe Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state historic site in New York in the United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site preserves the birthplace of American poet Walt Whitman.-History:...
- Washington's Headquarters State Historic SiteWashington's Headquarters State Historic SiteWashington's Headquarters State Historic Site is a historic site in Newburgh, New York, USA. It consists of the Hasbrouck House, the longest-serving headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, and three other structures....
(Washington's Headquarters NHL)