Bluestone for sidewalks, curbstones, building foundations, and…

1852 CE to 1863 CE

Bluestone for sidewalks, curbstones, building foundations, and other uses is widely used in New York and other cities, shipped from Rondout and Malden on Thomas Cornell’s barges and tugboats.

Kingston’s sidewalks and curbstones are almost entirely made of bluestone during this period.

The city's Old Dutch Church, designed by Minard Lefever, is built of native-dressed and -adorned bluestone blocks between 1850 and 1852.

Henry Samson, owner of a leather tanning enterprise, builds an Italian villa of ashlar and rusticated building blocks of bluestone on West Chestnut Street in Kingston in 1858.

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Kingston Ulster New York United States View →

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Western Architecture: 1852 to 1863 View →

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