{"nrhp_refnum":"76001291","name":"Leland Castle","other_names":["Castleview"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"29 Castle Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Rochelle","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.89776288000007,"lon":-73.78083881299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Leland Castle, also called Castleview, is a two-and-a-half-story granite Gothic Revival mansion at 29 Castle Place, New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1855-1859 for hotelier Simeon Leland and now forms part of the College of New Rochelle campus.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the castle as an English Gothic country residence with an eclectic romantic interior, designed by New York architect William Thomas Beers. It is described as a landmark of an earlier landscape and a symbol of the taste and lifestyle Americans idealized in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It is also the only surviving example of Beers's work.","narrative":"Once the centerpiece of a large country estate overlooking Long Island Sound, this granite castle in New Rochelle now sits among college buildings in an older residential neighborhood. Built from 1855 to 1859 for New York hotel operator Simeon Leland and designed by architect William Thomas Beers, it is a two-and-a-half-story Gothic Revival house with square, hexagonal and round towers, the tallest reaching 100 feet. Inside, black walnut woodwork, a blue and gold Minton tile floor and three original fireplaces survive, while rooms mix Gothic, Renaissance and rococo styles. After the Leland family left in 1880, the building served as a hunt club, temporary church quarters and a girls' boarding school before the Ursuline Sisters bought it in 1897 as a seminary. Chapels and a dormitory wing, added in matching granite, were later included in the listing. It is considered the only surviving work of Beers.","period_of_significance":"1855-59","architect_builder":"William Thomas Beers","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used by the Ursuline Sisters as part of the College of New Rochelle campus; the form checks the status as occupied and the property as private.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.601733-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001291.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001291/db83a6261e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001291/db83a6261e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Stephen Mihalchik","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leland_Castle,_New_Rochelle,_NY_(Front_View).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Mihalchik</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:Leland_Castle,_New_Rochelle,_NY_(Front_View).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323085","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Castle","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520717"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/leland-castle-76001291/"}