The Freer-Low House

The Freer-Low house is unique among the stone houses at Historic Huguenot Street. It is presented as it was modernized by Rev. John Follette, a Freer descendant, when he purchased the home and lived there with his mother in the 1940s. This house reflects the prevailing style of the time which desired the "charm" of the colonial past combined with modern conveniences.

The house takes its name from Hugo Freer, a founder of New Paltz, and Johannes Low, the husband of Hugo's granddaughter Rebecca, who inherited Hugo's Dutch-style wood frame house on the site and who led the construction of this handsome and solid stone house in its place in the early 1760s.

While at least four of the original stone houses had wooden additions, the Freer-Low House is the only house at Historic Huguenot Street which still possesses its early frame addition. The house was purchased by Historic Huguenot Street in 1955.

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