Cedar Cove

Cedar Cove is a former summer estate on the shore of Cazenovia Lake, about a mile north of Cazenovia village in Madison County, New York. Designed in 1884 and completed in 1888, its two-and-a-half-story shingled main house mixes Shingle, Eastlake, Queen Anne and Stick Style details. Three historic outbuildings survive: a carriage house, a stone-and-half-timbered boathouse and a gardener's cottage, along with steps from a vanished greenhouse. New York merchant Joseph Dodridge Peet commissioned the estate from architect George Browne Post, and local builder Henry H. Potter constructed it. It was the first of the large estates on the lake's east shore and became the benchmark for later ones, including Ormonde and Notleymere. Its wood shingles were used on an unprecedented scale in Cazenovia. From 1891 to 1937 the property belonged to Troy businessman Henry Burden. It reflects the town's rise as a resort for wealthy city residents.