{"nrhp_refnum":"07001039","name":"Cordts Mansion","other_names":["Edgewood Terrace"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"82-152 Lindsley Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.92951484200006,"lon":-73.97224981799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Second Empire mansion, also called Edgewood Terrace, at 82-152 Lindsley Avenue in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, built in 1873 for brick manufacturer John H. Cordts. It stands on a nine-acre hilltop lot with a carriage house, caretaker's apartment and two gazebos.","why_significant":"The mansion is presented as an outstanding example of Second Empire architecture, with its concave mansard roof, tower, iron cresting and bracketed cornices. It is also tied to the Hudson River brick industry through Cordts and Hutton, the brick firm Cordts co-founded in 1865. The industry supplied the bricks for New York City's 19th-century building expansion.","narrative":"Perched on a hill above the Hudson River in Kingston, this brick mansion was built in 1873 for John H. Cordts, a brick merchant and co-founder of the firm Cordts and Hutton. It is a three-story Second Empire house with a slate concave mansard roof, hooded dormers, iron cresting with fleur de lys finials, bracketed cornices, a columned porch and a central tower. Inside are 28 rooms, including two parlors, an ornate ribbed-ceiling dining room and a main staircase with faceted newel posts. The grounds hold a mansard-roofed carriage house, a caretaker's apartment and two gazebos. The property is recognized for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of a style popular after the Civil War, and for its link to the Hudson River brick industry, whose products fed New York City's building boom. The house stayed in one family until the 1980s, which kept structural changes to a minimum.","period_of_significance":"1873-1913","architect_builder":"not known","architectural_style":"Dutch Colonial vernacular; Second Empire","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a single-family residence; it was a bed and breakfast in the 1990s and has been kept in its historic character with little structural alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.703928-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001039.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001039/772aa5811a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001039/772aa5811a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cordts132","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordts_Mansion_1994.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Cordts132</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordts_Mansion_1994.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322582","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordts_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5170070"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/cordts-mansion-07001039/"}