Church Street Row is a group of nine residential buildings along the south side of Church Street (US 44

U.S. Route 44 in New York

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/NY 55

New York State Route 55

New York State Route 55 is a state highway in southern New York, running from the Pennsylvania state line at the Delaware River in Barryville to the Connecticut state line at Wingdale...

) between Academy and Hamilton streets in Poughkeepsie

Poughkeepsie (city), New York

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, New York

New York

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, United States

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. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1982.

They were built during the years between 1855 and 1895. The earliest, at the corner of Church and Hamilton, are frame

Framing (construction)

Framing, in construction known as light-frame construction, is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which provide a stable frame to which interior and exterior wall coverings are attached, and covered by a roof comprising horizontal ceiling joists and sloping...

 clapboard

Clapboard (architecture)

Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding or weather-board , is a board used typically for exterior horizontal siding that has one edge thicker than the other and where the board above laps over the one below...

 houses in the Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

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 style

Architectural style

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. Later buildings used brick

Brick

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, incorporating elements of a variety of styles — Gothic Revival, Second Empire and Queen Anne

Queen Anne Style architecture

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— that were popular at the times of construction. The eclectic result is the city's largest collection of brick houses in one place.