{"nrhp_refnum":"86001388","name":"Edgewood House","other_names":["Mrs. Hazen's School","Pelham Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"908 Edgewood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pelham Manor","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.894835313000044,"lon":-73.81982996699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Edgewood House is a three-and-one-half story wood and masonry Colonial Revival building at 908 Edgewood Avenue (911 Esplanade) in Pelham Manor, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1893 as a classroom building for Mrs. Hazen's School (Pelham Hall).","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant as a rare surviving building designed for a girls' boarding school, and it represents the tradition of girls' preparatory education. It is also an early, refined example of Colonial Revival architecture in Pelham Manor with Georgian-derived details. The school helped draw families to the developing suburb.","narrative":"Edgewood House, at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and the Esplanade in Pelham Manor, New York, was built in 1893 as the classroom building of Mrs. Hazen's School, also called Pelham Hall. Developer Benjamin F. Corlies built it for the school, which ran from 1889 to 1915 as an exclusive day and boarding school for girls. The three-and-one-half story building combines wood and brick in a Colonial Revival design, with a central gabled pavilion, flanking wings, a bracketed cornice with dentil band, and Georgian-inspired window trim. It originally held classrooms, a laboratory, a gymnasium and dormitories. The interior was converted to apartments in the 1920s, but the exterior remains largely intact and is being restored. The other campus buildings have been demolished or destroyed by fire. The property was listed for its architecture and for its link to girls' education and the growth of Pelham Manor as a suburban community.","period_of_significance":"1893-1915","architect_builder":"Unknown (built for the school by Benjamin F. Corlies; no documentation of an architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Undergoing rehabilitation, with historic siding and porch detail being restored; the interior remains apartments, converted in the 1920s. The other two campus buildings are gone: one demolished in 1983, one lost to fire in 1986.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.99863-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86001388.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001388/5423d08031-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001388/5423d08031-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55-VictorM","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgewood_House,_908_Edgewood_Ave._Pelham_Manor._Westchester_County,_New_York.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55-VictorM</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:Edgewood_House,_908_Edgewood_Ave._Pelham_Manor._Westchester_County,_New_York.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323013","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_House_(Pelham_Manor,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337903"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/edgewood-house-86001388/"}