{"nrhp_refnum":"93000851","name":"Roosevelt Point Cottage and Boathouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"River Point Rd. at the Hudson R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hyde Park","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.73962079900008,"lon":-73.93629600999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic Revival cottage and a long wood-frame boathouse on a 5-acre rocky point on the Hudson River off River Point Road, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York. The cottage dates to about 1860 and was built as a tenant's cottage on the Rosedale estate.","why_significant":"The cottage is a highly intact example of Gothic Revival architecture, retaining its original floor plan, woodwork, mantels and siding. Together with the boathouse, it is also significant for its association with the Roosevelt family and with nineteenth-century ice yacht racing, for which Roosevelt Point was a starting point of major races.","narrative":"Roosevelt Point holds a Gothic Revival cottage and a long boathouse on a rocky promontory beside the Hudson River in Hyde Park. The one-and-one-half-story cottage, built around 1860, has board-and-batten siding, a steep gabled roof with finials, scalloped vergeboards, hexagonal bays and pointed-arch gable windows. Inside, the original floor plan, mantels, hardwood floors and trim survive. Originally a tenant's cottage on the Rosedale estate, owned by Isaac Roosevelt and later John A. Roosevelt, it housed the estate gardener in the late 1870s and 1880s. The boathouse was built extra long to store John A. Roosevelt's 68-foot ice yacht Icicle, and the cottage's front room, with a stove, warmed racers waiting for wind. The point became a starting place for major ice yacht races. The two buildings are valued as an intact estate waterfront setting and as reminders of a largely forgotten sport.","period_of_significance":"ca.1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The cottage and boathouse are described as highly intact. The setting is now commercial, with a restaurant and the Hyde Park Marina on the property. The boathouse interior has had an office added and its loft removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.664748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000851.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000851/42cb5637b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000851/42cb5637b9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roosevelt_Point_cottage,_Hyde_Park,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Roosevelt_Point_cottage,_Hyde_Park,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Point_Cottage_and_Boathouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7366485"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/roosevelt-point-cottage-and-boathouse-93000851/"}