Storm–Adriance–Brinckerhoff House

The Storm–Adriance–Brinckerhoff House is located on Beekman Road (Dutchess County Route 9) in East Fishkill, New York, United States.

Thomas Storm, a captain in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, later served as the state Assembly Speaker.

[1] A porch on the main block of the east section, supported by wooden columns gives access to the original Dutch door offset to the west.

A small shed-roofed portico with shallow rounded arch supported by four wooden columns gives access to its original Dutch door, with sidelights.

The library's chimney breast has original fireplace jambs, a raised hearth and stile and rail paneling.

The living room's fireplace has its original Delft tiles, a shallow cornice, dentil border and torus and plain molding.

Both are considered contributing resources to its historic character, as are the monument in front of the house, which contains an old Indian mash bowl found on the property.

King James II granted letters patent three years later, allowing Rombout and the heirs of Verplanck, who had died in the interim, to subdivide and sell the land.

[1] In 1759 Derick Hageman bought 108 acres (44 ha) containing the future house property from Catheryna Rombout Brett, a descendant of Francis who had settled in what is now Beacon.

She carefully chose buyers with complementary skills and trades in order to sustain agrarian development on her family lands in the interior of the eastern Hudson Valley.

[1] Ten years later, in 1769, a neighbor, Garret Storm, for whom the hamlet of Stormville is named, bought the property from Hegeman and gave it to his son Thomas as a wedding gift.

He became a successful merchant and eventually returned to the Assembly, where he served as Speaker in 1802–03, and later ran for lieutenant governor with Morgan Lewis.

[1] He sold the house in 1785 to John Adriance, a member of a prominent Dutchess County family who later lent their name to Poughkeepsie's library.

That year the state and the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter placed a monument in front of the house, which included an old Indian millstone found on the land.