John Blake House

John Blake House

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caption = The house (seen here in May 2007) is screened from view by many trees
location = Maybrook, NY
nearest_city = Newburgh
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 29
lat_seconds = 37
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 74
long_minutes = 12
long_seconds = 34
long_direction = W
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built = 1794
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added = 1984
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refnum = 84000521
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governing_body = Private residence
The John Blake House is the only Registered Historic Place in Maybrook, New York, a village in the Orange County town of Montgomery. It is located on Homestead Avenue (NY 208), the village's main street and is one of the oldest houses in the village.

Blake, an early settler of the area, built the home around 1794 as the centerpiece of his father's 200-acre (50 ha) farm, "The Blake". [http://www.villageofmaybrook.com/content/newsletter_details.asp?ArticleID=40 A Touch of Maybrook History] at villageofmaybrook.com, retrieved May 28, 2007.] At the time he was serving as deputy sheriff of Ulster County, which then included the northern towns of present-day Orange County. He would later serve as Orange County sheriff after the county line was relocated northward when Rockland County was created in the early 1800s. In the interim he served in the state assembly, and would later serve two terms in the U.S. House, as well as sitting as a judge. He concluded his political career with fifteen terms as Montgomery town supervisor. No other individual in the history of Orange County held so many positions at so many different levels.Newman, Marc; "Images of America: Walden and Maybrook", Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, SC, 2001, ISBN 0738509566, 72.]

As Maybrook grew, the Blake was broken up into smaller and smaller parcels, owned by others. The house would undergo renovations in the 1820s and 1840s. When the village transformed into a railroad town in the late 19th century, the house was home to workers building the nearby connecting spur off the Erie Railroad main line later used by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.Newman, "op. cit.", 81.] It was added to the Register in 1984.

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