{"nrhp_refnum":"10000609","name":"Moore-Howland Estate","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 NY 385","address_restricted":false,"city":"Catskill","county":"Greene County","state":"NY","lat":42.248499150500066,"lon":-73.8567612199193,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hilltop estate house with outbuildings on a bluff above the Hudson River near Catskill, Greene County, New York, built in two phases, 1866 and 1900-1901, on an original twenty-three-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the property to landscape painter Charles Herbert Moore, who had the original cottage built in 1866-67 and later became the first director of Harvard's Fogg Museum. It is also tied to the Howland family, who bought it in 1871, and the 1900-1901 expansion gave the house a unified design. The surviving house and outbuildings keep much of their historic character.","narrative":"Perched on a high bluff above the Hudson River just north of Catskill, this estate centers on a long, rambling house of Catskill stone and board-and-batten wood. It grew in two stages. A small gambrel-roofed cottage called the Lodge was built in 1866-67 for the landscape painter Charles Herbert Moore and his wife, Mary Jane Tomlinson Moore. A much larger section, with a projecting pavilion, a shingled octagonal water tower and a service wing, was added in 1900-1901. Stone chimneys, deep eaves with scalloped rafter ends and wide porches facing the river and the Catskills give the whole an overall unity. Moore, a follower of Ruskin and a founder of the American Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later became the first director of Harvard's Fogg Museum. In 1871 the property passed to Benjamin Howland, whose family included the reformer Emily Howland. The nominated land is the original twenty-three acres, with a carriage house, garden house, gazebo and other outbuildings. Alterations since the 1920s include a studio window and a 1983 kitchen.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single residence; the house has had additions and interior remodelings from the 1920s to the present, including a 1983 kitchen wing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.846804-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000609.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore-Howland_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6908119"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/greene-county/moore-howland-estate-10000609/"}