The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York)

The Homestead is a historic house on Hudson Avenue in the village of Haverstraw, New York, United States.

The ground slopes steadily down toward the Hudson River to the east, exposing the house's basement on that elevation.

On the east is a two-story, three-bay open porch with square posts, brackets and a central gable on the roof top.

Finishings are plain and simple with the exception of the main hall and large first floor rooms, which have classically inspired decoration.

Peter Denoyelles, later to serve in the New York State Assembly and Congress, built the house around the beginning of the 19th century; the exact year is not certain.

In 1861, as the Civil War was beginning, Pye (who would later die in action at the Battle of Cold Harbor) sold it to his brother Isaac.

[2] Kennedy lived in the house until selling it to Aloysius Lynch, a longtime Haverstraw schools superintendent, in 1937.