CORRESPONDENCE - 75A SEXLINGER FARMHOUSE

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prospective patients. The site in- cludes 21 acres of the former 536 -acre site. Acreage not included in the district is heavily wooded and does not contribute to the historic signifi- cance of the complex. Bloomvale Historic District, Dutchess County, New York, is a small industrial site, established in the mid -18th century. The district's eleven contributing resources include the Bloom house and well, the Bloomvale mill, a worker's house, the mill's water system, the old highway and bridge abutments, four mill complex building sites, and the district's archeological remains. The agricultural function of the Bloom farm declined; farm buildings are gone and the agricultural fields are overgrown. However, the industrial history of Bloomvale is well repre- sented, and the Bloom house and the industrial complex remain suffi- ciently intact to preserve the setting of the mill site and the visual and functional interrelationships of its components. Thus, the industrial history of the site is the focus of the district's significance. The bound- aries of the district were selected to include the present -day parcels containing the significant historic resources. National Register bound- aries correspond to tax parcel bound- aries. Verbal boundary description: See attached site map and boundary map composed from local tax maps. Boundary justification: The bound- aries of the district were determined by the present -day parcels containing the significant historic components identified on the site map. Today, the house and the mill are owned sepa- rately. The Bloom house and its lot were divided from the mill site and two northern farm lots in the 1860s. Those farm lots were subsequently sold off and have since been further subdivided. The agricultural function of the Bloom farm declined over the years to the point where the farm buildings have disappeared and the agricultural fields reforested. Con- versely, the industrial history of Bloomvale is well represented and the Bloom house and the industrial complex remain sufficiently intact to preserve the setting of the mill site and the visual and functional interre- lationships of its components. Thus, it is the industrial history of the site that is the focus of the district's significance. Tax map showing nominated boundaries ordishice WM TOWN OF PLEASANT VALLEY 00CHESS COUNTY. NEW YORK 6S6a� TOWN OF WASHINGTON 4NCNf5S COVNYY. MEW TOflK 6565 Bloomvale Historic District, Dutchess County, New York. Tax map showing the National Register district boundaries. Martin M. Bates Farmstead, Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont, is a 45 -acre property includ- ing a 19th century Italianate farm- house and associated barn, ice house, and chicken house surrounded by hay fields and forested hills. The farm- stead contributes to understanding the development of dairy farming in the region; therefore, the intact open farm fields around the farm buildings are also important components of the farmstead. Although the farm is no longer in operation, the fields con- tinue to be hayed. Natural features, tax parcel boundaries, and reasonable limits were used to define the Na- tional Register boundaries. Verbal boundary description: The Bates Farmstead includes land on both sides of Richmond Town Highway #1. The boundary above the road is formed by the southern edge of a brook that drains into the Huntington River and the eastern line of tax parcel number 11 -51.1. The boundary below the road follows the southern line of tax parcel number 11 -50 to a point approxi- mately 500 feet from the edge of the road. From that point, the boundary extends in a straight line parallel with the road to the brook, which it touches south of Hillview Road. The boundary thence follows the brook downstream to Hillview Road and continues along the edge of that road to the town highway. Boundary justification: The boundary includes all buildings and the surrounding open fields historically associated with the Bates Farmstead. Martin M. Bates Farmstead, Richmond, Vermont. Plan map showing the National Register boundaries, which include buildings and associated fields and woods. 21