Bull Stone House

The Bull Stone House is a stone farmhouse at 183 County Route 51 in Campbell Hall, in the town of Hamptonburgh, New York, built in the 1720s by William Bull, a stonemason, and his wife Sarah Wells, who carried stones to the site while he cut and laid them; the work took thirteen years. The ten-room house measures 40 feet square with walls two feet thick, and the 120-acre property includes one of only a few hundred Dutch barns surviving in the Americas. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974, it is one of the few homes in the United States still owned and occupied by the same family, with a ninth-generation descendant serving as resident caretaker; it operates as a historic house museum offering paid public tours, and the Bull family, incorporated since 1920 as an association of descendants, has held annual reunions since 1868.