STATE HISTORIC SITE SYSTEM OVERVIEW
NAME
Property Name, Location/Setting
& Date Acquired
Ganondagan, Victor (rural) (1972)
Philipse Manor Hall, Yonkers
(urban) (1908)
Crailo, Rensselaer (urban) (1924)
Crown Point, Crown Point (rural)
(1910)
Clermont, Germantown (rural)
(1962)
Johnson Hall, Johnstown (small
city) (1906)
Schuyler Mansion, Albany (urban)
(1911)
Herkimer Home, Little Falls (rural)
(1913)
Senate House, Kingston (urban)
(1887)
Bennington Battlefield, Hoosick
(rural) (1913)
Oriskany Battlefield, Oriskany
(rural) (1927)
Fort Montgomery, Fort
Montgomery (village) (1910 acq.;
2006 open)
Stony Point Battlefield, Stony Point
(suburban) (1897)
Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate
(suburban) (1922) (“satellite” of
New Windsor Cantonment)
New Windsor Cantonment, Vails
Gate (suburban) (1917)
SIGNIFICANCE
Description & Designations, incl. National Historic
Landmark (NHL) & National Register (NRHP)
Site of important 17th c. Seneca town and fortified
granary; trails, reconstructed longhouse & other
buildings; NHL, NRHP
Important 17th and 18th c. Philipse family manor house;
early Georgian style interiors; also served as Yonkers’
village and city halls; house & grounds; NHL, NRHP
18th c. house; museum of colonial Dutch heritage in the
Hudson Valley; new exhibits; NHL, NRHP
Remains of major 18th c. French and British forts and
ancillary fortifications; also 19th c. industrial sites; 2
NHLs (both forts), NRHP
Important Livingston family estate; home of Chancellor
Robert R. Livingston, national leader and steamboat
collaborator; mansion, outbuildings, landscape &
gardens; NHL, NRHP
18th c. estate of Sir William Johnson, influential
European settler in the Mohawk Valley and Native
American liaison; main house, outbuildings &
landscape; NHL, NRHP
18th c. home of prominent Revolutionary War MajorGeneral Philip Schuyler and family; mansion, small
ancillary building & grounds; NHL, NRHP
18th c. home of Brigadier General Herkimer, Battle of
Oriskany hero; buildings, farmland, & monument;
views & canal trail access; NRHP
18th c. house; meeting place of New York’s first state
senate; house, museum building, grounds & adjacent
house used for offices; NRHP
Site of pivotal Revolutionary War battle; landscape,
monuments & buildings, including visitor center; NHL,
NRHP
Site of important Revolutionary War battle;
monuments, landscape & small building; NHL, NRHP
Site of important Revolutionary War fort and battle;
some fort remains; trails & visitor center; NHL, NRHP
Site of 18th c. fort and important Revolutionary War
battle; site of early ferry landing; home of oldest
Hudson River lighthouse; museum, designed landscape,
views & other buildings, NRHP
18th c. house used as headquarters for Revolutionary
War officers; the site’s Jane Colden Plant Sanctuary
honors America’s first female botanist; NHL, NRHP
Site of the Continental Army’s final camp before the
end of the Revolutionary War; archaeological site,
parkland, some reconstructed buildings, & museum
(exhibits & living history program); NRHP
NAME
Property Name, Location/Setting
& Date Acquired
Washington’s Headquarters,
Newburgh (urban) (1850)
Steuben Memorial, Remsen (rural)
(1930)
John Jay Homestead, Katonah
(suburban) (1958)
Lorenzo, Cazenovia (village) (1968)
Sackets Harbor Battlefield
Sackets Harbor (village) (1933)
Schoharie Crossing, Fort Hunter
(rural) (1966)
Hyde Hall, Cooperstown (rural)
(1963)
Fort Ontario, Oswego (small city)
(1946)
John Brown Farm, Lake Placid
(rural) (1896)
Staatsburgh, Staatsburg (village)
(1938)
SIGNIFICANCE
Description & Designations, incl. National Historic
Landmark (NHL) & National Register (NRHP)
18th c. house that served as General Washington’s
headquarters for 16.5 months before the end of the
Revolutionary War; the nation’s first publicly
purchased & publicly owned historic site; house,
museum building, Tower of Victory & grounds; NHL,
NRHP
Part of rural retreat of Baron von Steuben, famous
Revolutionary War drill master; grounds, grave,
reproduction cabin; NRHP
Early 19th c. farm and retirement home of John Jay,
one of the nation’s Founding Fathers, First Chief
Justice of the U.S., President of Continental Congress,
New York’s second governor, and home to later Jay
family members; main house, outbuildings, landscape
& gardens; NHL, NRHP
19th c. estate of prominent Lincklaen family,
community founders; mansion, buildings, landscape,
gardens & relocated Rippleton Schoolhouse; NRHP
War of 1812 headquarters and shipyard; site of pivotal
1814 battle and other military conflicts; museum
complex, multiple buildings, battleground, memorial
grove & nearby Union Hotel; NR
Remains of early Erie Canal features, including
massive stone aqueduct, locks & 1850s canal building;
visitor center, grounds & access to canal trail; NHL,
NRHP
19th c. estate of prominent Clarke family; Philip Hooker
designed mansion, outbuildings & landscape; NHL,
NRHP
Site of several fortifications, incl. present 19th c. fort;
associated w/ key military conflicts; various fort
buildings & features; NRHP
Farmstead and grave of prominent 19th c. abolitionist;
house, barn, cemetery, fields & caretaker’s house;
NHL, NRHP
Late 19th c. estate of prominent Mills family; mansion
on original estate grounds w/ outbuildings & views &
vistas; NHL district