Clinton House | |
 Clinton House in March 2017 | |
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| Location | 549 Main Street, Poughkeepsie,New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°42′0.94″N73°54′58.26″W / 41.7002611°N 73.9161833°W /41.7002611; -73.9161833 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1765 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| MPS | Poughkeepsie MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001128[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 26, 1982 |
TheClinton House is an 18th-centuryGeorgian stone building in the city ofPoughkeepsie,Dutchess County,New York, United States. It is aNew York State Historic Site and has been listed in theNational Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982. The house was named forGeorge Clinton, who served as the firstGovernor of New York and fourthVice-President of the United States. He was believed to have lived there after theAmerican Revolutionary War, but it is now known that it was never his residence.[2]
The house probably served as a meeting place for legislators during the time Poughkeepsie wascapital ofNew York in 1777.
Clinton House was built around 1765 by Clear Everitt, who was sheriff of the county from 1754 to 1761, on land that had belonged to Hugh van Kleeck (born about 1745, died after 1810) who owned about 20 hectares of land south of Main Street where the house stands. (The Van Kleeck House built in 1702 was demolished in 1836.)[3] In 1780, the house was purchased byUdney Hay, who belonged to Quartermaster Corp of theContinental Army. In 1783, the house was destroyed by fire and Hay rented the nearbyGlebe House. When his house was damaged by fire, Hay petitionedGeorge Washington for craftsmen from the army to assist in its repair.[4] However, Hay lost the house in 1786 when it was seized for debt.
In 1900, the house had fallen into disrepair and it was purchased by theDaughters of the American Revolution, who presented it to the thenGovernor of New YorkTheodore Roosevelt for the citizens of the State of New York.
It was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
Today, the Clinton house is used for the offices and library of theDutchess County Historical Society, with one room still set aside for use by the Mahwenawasigh Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.[5]
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