Stockade District Walking Tour

Walking tour highlights include many eighteenth century limestone houses, the site of the drafting of the New York State Constitution in 1777 at the Ulster County Courthouse and the gravesite of New York’s first elected governor, George Clinton, in the Old Dutch Church Burying Ground. Included is a tour of the interior of the c. 1812 Johnston House, the former home and showroom of nationally noted antiques dealer Fred J. Johnston where his collection of 18th and early 19th century furnishings anddecorative arts, mostly American, are showcased in eight elegant room settings he designed.