{"nrhp_refnum":"95000158","name":"Maycroft","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Ferry Rd. (NY 114)","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Haven","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":41.008511969500034,"lon":-72.30945840666124,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Maycroft is a 43.5-acre waterfront estate in North Haven, Suffolk County, New York, centered on a large Queen Anne/Shingle Style frame house built in 1886, with four contributing outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Maycroft is an intact, representative example of a late nineteenth century coastal summer estate on eastern Long Island. Its main house, designed by New York architect Edward Delano Lindsey, blends Queen Anne ornament with Shingle Style form. Long use by religious and educational institutions kept the house, interiors and grounds essentially intact despite re-siding.","narrative":"Maycroft is a 43.5-acre estate on Sag Harbor Cove in North Haven, New York, built in 1886 as a summer home for New York merchant James Herman Aldrich and his wife Mary. Architect Edward Delano Lindsey designed the large three-story frame house, which combines the broad massing of the Shingle Style with Queen Anne details such as a conical-roofed tower, multiple gables, brick chimneys and leaded or stained glass windows. Inside, natural wood finishes, fireplaces and a landing window with ogival stained glass survive. Outbuildings include a carriage house, tennis pavilion, garage and shed. After Mary Aldrich's death in 1921, the estate passed to the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, which ran it as a holiday house for business women. Since 1952 an Episcopal order of nuns has operated the Tuller School there. The property was listed for architecture because this continuous institutional use preserved a typical Long Island summer estate, its grounds and its original design largely intact despite asbestos siding added over the cedar shingles.","period_of_significance":"1886 - c.1910","architect_builder":"Architect: Lindsey, Edward Delano; Builder: White, Gillespie & Far","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne/Shingle Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as the Motherhouse of an Episcopal order and the site of the Tuller School, a day school for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade; the tennis pavilion is in poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.545749-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000158.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322174","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maycroft","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6797007"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/maycroft-95000158/"}