{"nrhp_refnum":"02000138","name":"Walden, Jacob T., Stone House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N. Montgomery St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walden","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.56535388100008,"lon":-74.19509728599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story rubblestone side-hall house with a gambrel roof on North Montgomery Street in the village of Walden, Orange County, New York, built about 1785 as an addition to an older frame cottage.","why_significant":"The house is a rare example in Orange County of a gambrel-roofed, side-hall stone dwelling, a form linked to New York City and New Jersey influence rather than the region's typical steep-roofed stone houses. It also retains its form, floor plan and many interior finishes. It is associated with Jacob T. Walden, a merchant and industrial founder after whom the village was renamed in 1855.","narrative":"Built about 1785 on North Montgomery Street in the village of Walden, this one-and-one-half story stone house has a rubblestone structure, a gambrel roof covered in wood shingles and a three-bay side-hall plan. It was added to an older, pre-Revolutionary frame cottage. Its gambrel form, with a sweeping front eave, is common in the lower Hudson Valley, New York City and northern New Jersey but rare in Orange County, where steep-roofed stone houses were typical. Inside, the house keeps its original stair, a keeping room with a corner fireplace, two parlors, plaster walls, wide plank floors, moldings and mantels. Jacob T. Walden, a New York City merchant, bought the property in 1812 and developed cotton and woolen mills along the river. The hamlet of Kiddtown was renamed Walden in 1855, the year he died. Restored by the local historical society after 1958, the house now operates as a museum and is the village's first listing on the national register of historic places.","period_of_significance":"ca.1785-ca.1855","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Dutch","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Now used as a museum, owned by the local historical society. It was saved from demolition in 1958 and extensively restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.69577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02000138.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000138/45f0e91312-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000138/45f0e91312-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Walden_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Walden_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320783","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_T._Walden_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706598"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/walden-jacob-t-stone-house-02000138/"}