{"nrhp_refnum":"11000203","name":"Alden Villa","other_names":["Millwood"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1012 Alden Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cornwall Borough","county":"Lebanon County","state":"PA","lat":40.27566862900005,"lon":-76.43000774699993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Alden Villa is a three-story Queen Anne style mansion on a hill in the Cornwall area of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, with a caretaker's cottage within its boundary. It was built in 1881 and designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its architecture, as one of White's early commissions and his only built work in Pennsylvania. It is described as a strong example of the shingle-style and Queen Anne designs of the firm, with well-preserved interior woodwork, glass, and finishes. The house is also linked to the Coleman family's iron industry wealth and to an 1910 library addition.","narrative":"Built in 1881 on a wooded hill in Cornwall, Lebanon County, Alden Villa is a three-story mansion designed by Stanford White of the New York firm McKim, Mead & White. It was commissioned by Anna Caroline Coleman Alden as a wedding gift for her son Robert Percy Alden and his wife Mary Ida Warren, and the Coleman family's iron fortunes paid for it. The house is notable for its east window wall of stained glass, its central tower, and a great hall with an unusually large fireplace and musicians' gallery. Its interiors, including woodwork, wallpaper, and the dining room's Moorish-style detailing, remain largely intact. The house is valued as an early example of White's work and as his only built commission in Pennsylvania. A library was added around 1910, marking the end of the period of significance. Later owners included a garment workers' union, which remodeled the kitchen and bathrooms in the 1950s.","period_of_significance":"1881-c. 1910","architect_builder":"Stanford White (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Late Victorian: Shingle","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Exterior is in poor condition; the caretaker's cottage was restored in 2007 and the carriage house was renovated in 2008 for commercial use, though the carriage house is not within the boundary.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.444521-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/11000203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000203/2c41e5f450-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000203/2c41e5f450-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JoeRed","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alden_Villa.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JoeRed</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Alden_Villa.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995156","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden_Villa","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4713587"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lebanon-county/alden-villa-11000203/"}