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Kitchen Cabinets in Wingdale, NY

Wingdale is a hamlet of about 1,050 people in the town of Dover, seven miles south of Dover Plains and seven miles north of Pawling on the Route 22 corridor. For seventy years it was effectively a company town, and the company was a state hospital.

Kitchen cabinets Wingdale NY homeowners are fitting go into housing shaped by one institution. Construction of the Harlem Valley State Hospital began in 1919 on the site of a former prison farm; it opened on 24 April 1924 with room for two hundred and fifty patients, held 1,294 by 1929, and peaked at 5,818 in 1956 before closing on the last day of January 1994. The town's population went from 1,710 in 1920 to 7,385 by 1940.

What that produced on the ground differs from its neighbour up the road. The hospital was a self-contained settlement with its own farm, dairy, bakery and laundry, and staff quarters were finished by 1929; the housing outside it went up for people working there, plainly and to a budget, with scattered building on the eastern hills. Where Dover Plains holds three National Register listings, Wingdale has none. The fabric here is functional, not decorative.

Practically that means small, tightly planned rooms, later additions that do not quite align, and private wells and septic throughout, with no community water system at all. The Swamp River runs through the middle of the hamlet, so ground near it sits low and older houses have often had damp in the lower floor. Where the floor has to be made up under a base run, that allowance is drawn and costed before the order goes in.