{"nrhp_refnum":"79001592","name":"Roosevelt, James Alfred, Estate","other_names":["Yellowbanks"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"360 Cove Neck Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cove Neck","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.88419341100007,"lon":-73.5079103093339,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Yellowbanks, the James Alfred Roosevelt Estate, is a Shingle Style summer house on a twelve-acre parcel overlooking Oyster Bay at 360 Cove Neck Road, Cove Neck Village, Nassau County, New York. It was designed by Bruce Price in 1881.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is both historically and architecturally significant. It is a major example of Bruce Price's Shingle Style work and his only Long Island house. It also housed three generations of Roosevelts who contributed to American commerce and banking, and it forms part of a group of Roosevelt-related buildings in Oyster Bay.","narrative":"Yellowbanks is a Shingle Style country house on twelve acres above Oyster Bay, close to Sagamore Hill on Long Island's north shore. James Alfred Roosevelt commissioned architect Bruce Price to design it as a family summer house in 1881, and he named it for the forsythia on the slopes down to the bay. The house has a gambrel roof, shingled walls banded with clapboard, and a central hall with a marble fireplace and stick-style staircase. Price considered it a successful adaptation of his ideas to an irregular lot, and it was his only Long Island house. Three generations of Roosevelts lived there, a family whose business moved from plate glass into banking, investment and cable financing. The house was altered in the twentieth century, with porch changes, a demolished kitchen wing, a 1950s garage and a 1970s pool house. It is valued as a late nineteenth-century summer residence and as part of the Roosevelt enclave at Oyster Bay.","period_of_significance":"1881","architect_builder":"Bruce Price","architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a private residence; the form lists it as occupied and altered, in good condition, with additions and removals over the years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:40.008204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001592.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319185","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alfred_Roosevelt_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6128588"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/roosevelt-james-alfred-estate-79001592/"}