{"nrhp_refnum":"91000869","name":"Hillcrest","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Ridge Rd. S of Hoffman","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cazenovia","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.93886230100003,"lon":-75.85719837699997,"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":"Hillcrest is a former summer estate on Ridge Road in the village of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, on an 8.1-acre parcel. It has a Queen Anne and Colonial Revival main house (1899-1905) and three contributing outbuildings: a carriage house, guest house and ice house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the estate is an outstanding local example of the eclectic summer mansions built by wealthy clients near Cazenovia Lake. Its main house combines Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Renaissance Revival elements, and its interior is described as the only known local example of such opulent Second Renaissance Revival decoration. It also recalls Cazenovia's change from an agricultural village into a resort community, and its surviving outbuildings show how such estates functioned.","narrative":"Hillcrest is a summer estate on a hillside along Ridge Road in Cazenovia, overlooking Cazenovia Lake. The nominated 8.1 acres hold a three-story frame main house with a conical turret, wraparound porches and Queen Anne gables, plus a carriage house, guest house and ice house built as a group in matching materials. Robert Benson Davis, a baking powder manufacturer from Manlius, bought the property in 1903. The house gained Colonial Revival details on the exterior after 1905. In 1922 his daughter Lucretia had the interior remodeled with gilded coffered ceilings, plaster wainscoting and a large carved mantel in a French Renaissance style. The estate was once about ninety acres, but most of the land was subdivided and developed, so only the house and three outbuildings are included. The listing rests on architecture and on the estate's link to Cazenovia's growth as a lakeside resort for wealthy city residents from the 1870s to about 1929. The designer is not known.","period_of_significance":"c1903-1922","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The main house, carriage house (converted to an apartment) and other buildings are in residential use; the property is described as retaining a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.997542-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91000869.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313538","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_(Cazenovia,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5762763"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/hillcrest-91000869/"}