William Shay Double House

William Shay Double House
Front (west) elevation and north profile, 2008
LocationNew Hamburg. NY
Nearest cityPoughkeepsie
Coordinates41°35′12″N 73°56′59″W / 41.58667°N 73.94972°W / 41.58667; -73.94972
Builtca. 1870[1]
Architectural styleGothic Revival
MPSNew Hamburg MRA
NRHP reference No.87000121
Added to NRHP1982

The William Shay Double House is a residential duplex at Point Street and River Road in New Hamburg, New York, United States. It was built around 1870 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Shay, a local rag and cotton merchant, lived nearby and worked out of an adjacent warehouse. The duplex is a brick building in the Gothic Revival architectural style, unusual for both its scale and amount of decoration for utilitarian worker housing of the period in the area. It is still in use as a rental property.

  1. ^ Larson, Neil. "National Register of Historic Places nomination, William Shay Double House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.