Maizefield

Maizefield, often called Maizeland by local people, is a historic house on West Market Street, New York State Route 199, in the village of Red Hook in Dutchess County, New York. It is a large plain brick building of three stories in the Federal style with clear English Georgian influences, built around the end of the 18th century and given a flat roof, four corner chimneys and a semi-octagonal south wing. The main block is faced in brick laid in English bond on every side but the west, which is stone. General David Van Ness, an officer of the Revolutionary War and the first supervisor of the Town of Red Hook, lived here, and Aaron Burr is said to have hidden at the house after the duel in which he killed Alexander Hamilton. On the southwest corner of the property stands a timber-frame Victorian cottage built in 1849 that later research attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and both buildings remain private residences.