{"nrhp_refnum":"90001013","name":"Seven Oaks Estate","other_names":["Ic-6"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"End of Ludlow Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Palisades","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.007239950500036,"lon":-73.90885518893384,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Seven Oaks is a Gothic Revival estate on about 15 acres at the end of Ludlow Lane in Palisades, Orangetown, Rockland County, New York. The main house was built in 1862 for Charles F. Park to designs by George and F. Woodward, with five related outbuildings.","why_significant":"The estate is presented as a distinctive example of a mid-nineteenth century Gothic Revival country estate, designed from a published pattern-book plan by the Woodwards. It also represents the early, informal phase of estate building, when Palisades was becoming a summer retreat for wealthy New Yorkers after the railroads arrived. Its surviving service buildings and largely unchanged setting add to its importance.","narrative":"Seven Oaks is a country estate on the northern slope of Torrey Hill in Palisades, Rockland County, New York. Charles F. Park bought 25 acres in 1860 and built the main house in 1862 on a design by George and F. Woodward, who published it in their 1865 pattern book, Woodwards' Cottage Homes. The two-story clapboarded house has a projecting central bay, a full-width verandah, a steeply pitched cross-gabled roof, and dormers with pierced vergeboards. It uses a balloon frame, which was still unusual at the time. The nominated 15.28 acres also hold a coachman's house, a laundry, a summer kitchen, a barn later converted to a residence, and a machine shop from about 1911. The property is considered important as an early, relatively informal example of the estates that replaced small river-hamlet settlement in Palisades. Its service buildings stand close to the house, and the open fields and woods around it remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1862 to circa 1911","architect_builder":"George E. & F.W. Woodward (architects); builder unknown","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residences; condition is listed as good, with no known threats. The barn was converted to a residence in 1968.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.922443-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90001013.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001013/cf22436676-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001013/cf22436676-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SEVEN_OAKS_ESTATE,_PALISADES,_ROCKLAND_COUNTY_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:SEVEN_OAKS_ESTATE,_PALISADES,_ROCKLAND_COUNTY_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314518","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Oaks_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6317134"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/seven-oaks-estate-90001013/"}