The West Strand

The West Strand is a row of nineteenth-century buildings that survives from a once-thriving river port commercial center. At the corner of Broadway, the Mansion House once served as a 100-room stage stop and hotel, offering modest accommodations to travelers and canallers. The other buildings in the row were constructed between 1855 and the 1870s and are excellent examples of Italianate mixed commercial and residential structures built with iron frames and brick or stone facades. Today the row, along with much of the surrounding neighborhood, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architectural details in the area help identify a building’s style and often its time of construction, as seen in the more picturesque Italianate window tops at 21 W. Strand compared with the plain stone lintels on the older buildings at 11 W. Strand.

Kingston, New York · United States