{"nrhp_refnum":"95000211","name":"Peachcroft","other_names":["James Wilson Brown House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"River Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montgomery","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.54048345850006,"lon":-74.21354165739115,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead on River Road in the rural north of the Town of Montgomery, Orange County, New York, on a 97.9-acre parcel beside the Wallkill River. It centers on a farmhouse built about 1800 and remodeled in 1893, with farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farmhouse is argued to be a distinctive, intact example of Federal and Victorian rural residential architecture in Montgomery. It shows how local building moved from eighteenth-century stone and frame farmhouses to more standardized nineteenth-century styles. The surviving barn, shed and chicken coop illustrate the progression of a working farm and the town's rural agrarian development.","narrative":"Peachcroft is a 97.9-acre farmstead on River Road in the northern part of Montgomery, Orange County, New York, along the Wallkill River. Its farmhouse was built around 1800 as a two-and-a-half-story, three-bay frame house and was remodeled in 1893 by local builder Chauncey Brooks, who replaced the kitchen wing with a large wing topped by an octagonal cupola and added porches and a slate roof. Federal-era features survive inside, including a parlor mantel with small keystone arches and a cherry staircase. The property takes its name from the peaches that Jonathan Mills Hawkins grew here after receiving the farm as a wedding gift. A barn, a garage-turned-shed and a chicken coop also contribute. The property was listed for architecture, as an intact example of Federal and Victorian rural building and of how a working farmstead changed from the early nineteenth century into the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800, 1893-1910","architect_builder":"Chauncey Brooks, local builder from the village of Montgomery (1893 remodeling)","architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is a single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings; the form describes the property 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 02:51:50.809957-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000211.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000211/a16eac308f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000211/a16eac308f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peachcroft_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Peachcroft_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320722","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachcroft","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7157672"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/peachcroft-95000211/"}