{"nrhp_refnum":"91000865","name":"Old Trees","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W side of Rippleton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cazenovia","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.91852633700003,"lon":-75.8738340408623,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old Trees is a 168-acre former summer estate on the west side of Rippleton Road, about three miles south of the village of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York. It includes a lodge built in 1917 and remodeled in 1937, plus outbuildings, with four contributing and three noncontributing buildings.","why_significant":"The estate is argued to be a distinctive late example of the large summer residences built near Cazenovia Lake. Its main house combines Craftsman rustic and Georgian Revival styles in two phases, 1917 and 1937. The surviving 1917 outbuildings and most of the original estate lands recall the original rustic design and the area's history as a resort for wealthy urban families.","narrative":"Old Trees is a 168-acre hillside estate south of Cazenovia village, overlooking the southern end of Cazenovia Lake. Frederick R. Hazard, founder of the Solvay Process Company, bought the land in 1890 as a summer retreat and first built rustic cabins, none of which survive. In 1917 he erected a shingled lodge near the hilltop, along with a carriage house, an equipment barn and a small guest cabin. In 1937 his daughter and her husband decided to live there year-round and hired the Buffalo architects Bley & Lyman to remodel the lodge. The work turned it into a largely Georgian Revival house with white tongue-and-groove siding, dormers, Colonial-style windows and a fanlit entry, while a few rustic features such as shingles and stone chimneys remained. The three early outbuildings keep the original rustic character. The estate is significant as a late example of the summer mansions of the Cazenovia Lake area and for its blend of Adirondack-camp informality with Colonial formality.","period_of_significance":"1917-1937","architect_builder":"Lymn & Bley (Buffalo, N.Y.)","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival; Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family residence; the carriage house is now a private residence and the equipment barn retains its original function.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.343295-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91000865.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313524","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Trees","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085328"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/old-trees-91000865/"}