This house model—with a bay window on the upper floor and a full length porch below—became common in Newburgh in the early 20th century. Most of the houses on Lutheran are in this style, Italianate, distinguished by flat roofs and cornices. The example at 12 Lutheran dates to about 1908, the builder probably being James D. Tweed, a contractor who purchased this parcel in April 1908 from the Odell family. Tweed worked as a supervisor of the sixth ward, city building inspector, and later served as mayor.

Contractor William H. Thorn built this two-story “flat house” in 1908. The term “flat house” meant a house purposely built to hold two or more apartment units. Flat houses on the street have two-story wooden porches to accommodate tenants at the front and rear.

Ira L. Burhans, a contractor, built this house for him and his wife Laura in 1902. Ira and his brother Lewis had trained as builders in the late 19th century, and established their own business by 1900. Laura E. Burhans was devoted to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, working against destructive alcoholism in families. As treasurer of the group, she held executive meetings in the house until her passing in 1910.

The Sager family lived in this freestanding home from the late 1910s until 1955. William Sager, a gifted mason, worked for architect Frederic M. Sneed to build mansions in the north end of the city. His home life was more modest, and he may have added the garage extension as a small workshop. The Sager daughters: Lulu, Ella, and Flora, had jobs as hat trimmers.

These twin flat houses with double porches were begun by contractor Fred Kiefer in fall 1905. One of the early tenants was Malcolm E. Parrott, a manager of the Van Motor Co., who married Mary Bradley Morey in November 1913 and made their home here. Parrott was credited with introducing the first taxicabs in Newburgh.

This towering former carpentry workshop is where many of the street’s wooden porches were probably fabricated. It was built in 1889 as the workshop of brother-in-laws William Tweed and Caleb Woodruff, who began operating as a firm in 1890. It remained a workshop under the Crevling brothers, contractors, but by 1930 had become a warehouse for the Fleischmann Company, the largest yeast manufacturer in the world.

Contractor George Purdy built these two twin flat houses from 1901–02 for owner Joseph R. Semler. The bay is noticeably rectangular, a trend begun in the 1890s, with a frontage striped by belt courses. F. Gerard Wood and his wife Mabelle Tice married the year construction began on the house. They were the only tenants in the late 1910s, when Wood worked as chief stock clerk for the Fabrikoid factory.

Frank E. Estabrook designed this 1891 residence for Caleb Woodruff, one of his choice carpenters. Ironically most of the focus on the exterior is given to terracotta ornament. Woodruff lived here with his Scottish wife Matilda and their children, who remained in the house until the 1940s. J. J. Wheeler operated a funeral home here until the 1970s.

When this large flat house was built in the 1890s, the houses beside it were empty lots. Brownstone was used for the quoins: blocks at the tower’s edges. Panels on the tower were constructed by angling brick into patterns.

George Thomas Barnes—a prominent plumber with a store at 91 Broadway—moved into this house in November 1895 with his wife, Nancy Seabury Cory. It is likely that this house, 48, and 37 Lutheran were built at the same time, as they share details: carved porch posts and broad stone lintels, the bold tops of the window openings. The lintels resemble those Estabrook used in his house designs in the early 1890s, which indicate the builders took after his work and knew it well—possibly Tweed & Woodruff themselves.