Williams-DuBois House
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Williams–DuBois House
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East profile and south (front) elevation, 2009
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| Location | New Castle, NY |
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| Coordinates | 41°11′6″N 73°49′39″W / 41.18500°N 73.82750°WCoordinates: 41°11′6″N 73°49′39″W / 41.18500°N 73.82750°W |
| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Built | 1780 |
| Architect | Arthur Williams |
| Architectural style | Colonial |
| NRHP reference # | 89000463 |
| Added to NRHP | May 25, 1989 |
The Williams–DuBois House is located at Grace Lane and Pinesbridge Road in New Castle, New York, United States. It was built by an early settler of the area during the Revolutionary War. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Originally built in the Georgian-influenced American Colonial style, it later acquired some Federal style decoration, particularly on the interior. The lunette windows on the second story may have been added later, after their use on a now-demolished local hotel. Despite later modifications, it is the only house from that era remaining in the town that has a gambrel roof. It remains a private residence.
The house and its outbuildings and dependencies, none of which are considered contributing resources to the Register listing, are located on a three-acre (1.2 ha) lot on the northern corner of the three-way intersection, a quarter-mile (400 m) from the Ossining village line. The surrounding area has many other houses, all of more modern construction, on similarly large lots. It remains heavily wooded; a golf course is located a short distance to the north. Among the trees on the lot are some species rare in the area, native to the Far East.
The surrounding terrain is gently rolling. At the intersection Pinesbridge follows high ground between two swampy areas. The lot therefore slopes toward Oliver Pond to the northwest.
A driveway from the intersection provides parking between the house and a former barn to the south, now used as a garage. The house itself is a one-and-a-half-story, five-by-three-bay wood frame structure on a fieldstone foundation. It is sided in clapboard on all but the north (rear) elevation and topped with a gambrel roof shingled in wood. Brick chimneys pierce it at either end.
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