{"nrhp_refnum":"71000534","name":"Steepletop","other_names":["Edna St. Vincent Millay House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Austerlitz on E. Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austerlitz","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.32175326800004,"lon":-73.44655807850192,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-11-11","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1971-11-11","areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Steepletop is a 700-800 acre estate near Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, centered on a two-story white clapboard main house said to date from around 1870, with a writing cabin, barn, guest house and other outbuildings.","why_significant":"It was the home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay from 1925 until her death in 1950, and she wrote many volumes of verse there. The house and outbuildings reflect her personality and form a memorial to her life. Millay was a leader of the 1920s Greenwich Village bohemian movement and earned a wide audience with poems such as \"Renascence.\"","narrative":"Steepletop is an estate of roughly 700 to 800 acres near Austerlitz, New York, where poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived with her husband, Eugen Boissevain, from 1925 until her death in 1950. The main house is a two-story white clapboard building with a steep gable roof and central chimney, said to date from about 1870. Nearby are an ice house, a large barn, a stable, a late eighteenth-century guest house, and a small unpainted-board cabin where Millay worked. The cabin appears unchanged since her death, and the house holds her books, dresses, furniture and other belongings. Millay rose to fame with \"Renascence\" and became a leading figure of the Greenwich Village bohemian circle of the 1920s. She won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote many volumes of verse at Steepletop. The property was recognized because the house and outbuildings reflect her personality and serve as a memorial to her life.","period_of_significance":"20th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and unaltered at the time of nomination; used as a private residence occupied by Millay's sister and her husband. Millay's writing cabin appears unchanged since her death.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.298888-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000534_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000534/e1ec9d6bea-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000534/e1ec9d6bea-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steepletop_main_house,_Austerlitz,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Steepletop_main_house,_Austerlitz,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315681","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steepletop","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12070021"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/steepletop-71000534/"}