John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“The John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn is located along Old Post Road in Staatsburg, New York. It is a late-18th-century stone house that once served as an inn along the Albany Post Road.”
Wikipedia article John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Hendricks, John, House and Dutch Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Old Post Rd., Staatsburg, 12580
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. building
Town. Hyde Park town
National Register reference number. 84002373 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

237 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 49 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	137
Arson/incendiarism	49
Smoking	12
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of John Hendricks House and Dutch Barn: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hyde Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Morris Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Staatsburg, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	$300,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	$9,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	$5,000	A stationary front which was draped across northern Pennsylvania and southeast New York on the 13th of August was responsible for severe thunderstorms which occurred across parts of eastern New York early that morning and during the afternoon. The first round of thunderstorms occurred during the early morning hours of the 13th of August accompanied by a tremendous number of cloud to ground lightning strikes. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in Guilderland and Troy. Later that day a second round of thunderstorms downed trees and powerlines across eastern parts of Ulster County and northern parts of Dutchess County.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	-	Trees were downed on Albany Post Road near Staatsburg.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	-	Two trees were downed on a driveway near Staatsburg.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	-	A tree was reported down blocking a roadway.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	-	Tree and power pole were downed on Reservoir Road near Vanessa Lane.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	-	Thunderstorm winds reportedly downed trees which blocked Mills Cross Road near Staatsburg.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Staatsburg	-	Many large trees were reported down at the Mills Mansion Historic Site as a result of thunderstorm winds. Scaffolding was also reported damaged and hanging off the building.
June 2013	Hail	Staatsburg	-	Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Staatsburg.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
George Rymph House	1.6 miles	1993
Stonecrest	2.3 miles	1987
Hillside Methodist Church	2.9 miles	1987
Evergreen Lands	3.0 miles	1987
Vanderbilt Lane Historic District	3.0 miles	1993
Howard Mansion and Carriage House	3.2 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002373 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.