{"nrhp_refnum":"85002287","name":"Knollcroft","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"CR 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Concord","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.39292728500004,"lon":-73.53040193164607,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Knollcroft is a large two-story brick and frame Queen Anne style summer residence built in 1880 at the edge of the hamlet of New Concord, Columbia County, New York, on a 24.5-acre property with a carriage house, well house, privy, pond and orchard.","why_significant":"It is argued to be a distinguished and remarkably intact Queen Anne residence in a rural county otherwise marked by Federal and Greek Revival vernacular architecture. It embodies a rural retreat built and used by wealthy New York City families in the upper Hudson Valley. Its restrained, naturalistic design contrasts with urban versions of the style.","narrative":"Knollcroft is a large brick and shingled frame summer house built in 1880 by George Chesterman, a New York City financier, at the edge of New Concord in Columbia County. It replaced an earlier frame residence that burned in 1879. Designed in the Queen Anne style with informal, rustic touches, it has an asymmetrical plan, complex rooflines, projecting bays and a deep veranda with turned and spindlework ornament. Inside, oak and cherry woodwork, wainscoting, beaded-board ceilings and spindlework mantels survive. The 24.5-acre grounds retain a carriage house, well house, privy, dammed pond and orchard. The house stands out among the area's plain Federal and Greek Revival farmhouses and shows how restrained country versions of the style differed from urban examples. It reflects the use of Columbia County as a retreat by wealthy city families, with later owners including a diplomat and a Brooklyn hat manufacturer who summered there until 1923.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Built by George Chesterman; architect unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; described as recently rejuvenated after being bought in a neglected state in 1979.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.704256-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002287.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002287/aca2063a4b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002287/aca2063a4b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Dodie Gearing","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knollcroft.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dodie Gearing</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knollcroft.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317022","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knollcroft","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6422977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/knollcroft-85002287/"}