{"nrhp_refnum":"73001198","name":"Wilson, Edmund, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Port Leyden off NY 12 on Talcottville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Port Leyden","county":"Lewis County","state":"NY","lat":43.53481707100008,"lon":-75.36607777399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story limestone farmhouse known as the Stone House, located on Talcottville Road at Talcottville, near Port Leyden in Lewis County, New York. Construction began in 1789 under Hezekiah Talcott and finished four years later.","why_significant":"The house was the summer home and refuge of Edmund Wilson (born 1895, died 1972), a leading 20th-century American man of letters, and is the house he made famous in his book \"Upstate.\" It is also an attempt at an elegant Georgian mansion in a newly settled frontier area.","narrative":"Limestone quarried from the nearby Sugar River went into this farmhouse at Talcottville, in Lewis County, New York. Hezekiah Talcott began building it in 1789 and finished four years later, when the area was newly settled. The two-and-a-half-story main block is nearly square, three bays wide and four long, with a flattened gabled roof, four corner chimneys, Palladian windows in the gable ends, and a two-story porch across the facade. A small one-story wing extends at the rear, and a stone barn is the only surviving outbuilding. Inside, a central stairwell is flanked by front and rear rooms with carved mantels. The house is best known as the Stone House of writer Edmund Wilson, whose family used it as a summer home. Wilson rescued it from decay in middle age and made it his refuge until his death in 1972, and he described it in his book \"Upstate.\" At the time of listing the house stood empty and deteriorating.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Hezekiah Talcott (builder, commenced 1789)","architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in fair condition; the house is empty and deteriorating, and its future is uncertain.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.88661-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001198.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001198/c467539467-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001198/c467539467-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EDMUND_WILSON_HOUSE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:EDMUND_WILSON_HOUSE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318606","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Wilson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5339927"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/lewis-county/wilson-edmund-house-73001198/"}