The Hasbrouck House, also known as the Evelyn Samuels Memorial Building, is located on Market Street in downtown

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, New York,

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, next to the

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building. It was built in 1885 as the home of

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, a local judge and historian. The architect was

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. Withers' design, a red brick house of two and a half storeys and raised basement, features many

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touches, such as a recessed front porch with two round-headed arches divided by a spiral column with molded floral design and

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capital. Below the railing are two fielded panels with foliate relief. On the upper stories, there are brownstone windowsills and courses around the house. Other

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include an oriel window on the second story, pentagonal dormer on the third, and a

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roofline. The interior remains intact. The

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, brick chimney, glazed

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s and oak woodwork are especially well-preserved examples of late 19th-century decor. The house is the city's most distinguished building in the Romanesque style, complemented nearby by the similar New York State Armory and

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. It is unusual to find a Romanesque dwelling of this scale in a city Poughkeepsie's size. Normally they were reserved for larger cities, or prison compounds and military bases. In the later years of the 20th century the house became the home of the

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of the Dutchess-Orange Region which named it after Samuels, a former benefactor. It was added to the

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in 1982.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in New York Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Romanesque Revival architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1885 Houses in Poughkeepsie, New York National Register of Historic Places in Poughkeepsie, New York