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For the Abraham Staats house in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, see Staats House (South Bound Brook, New Jersey).

The Staats House is a very old and important building. It stands along the Hudson River near Stockport, in Columbia County, New York. The first house built here was sadly destroyed by fire around c. 1664, but it was quickly rebuilt.

This special house was built by a person named Abraham Staats. He started building it between 1652 and 1665. The house has very strong stone walls that are three feet thick! That's about as thick as a grown-up's arm is long.

The first house on this spot was sadly destroyed, and its residents faced danger, but it was quickly rebuilt. People also believe that this is the very place where the famous explorer Henry Hudson landed in 1609.

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