Linden Hall at Saint James Park

Linden Hall is a Tudor Revival mansion of thirty-one rooms on a high point of the St. James Park estate near Dawson, Fayette County. Sarah Boyd Moore Cochran had it built between 1909 and 1911 on an estate of roughly 700 acres, and it was her home until her death in 1936. The two and a half story house is faced in quarried stone below a wooden cornice and in white stucco above it, and it is laid out in a broad crescent opening to a circular entrance drive. Its interior includes an Aeolian pipe organ, Tiffany Studio stained glass in the stair bay, and murals painted in 1913 by H. L. Dahler. Its masonry and steel structure, with hollow clay tile floors and walls, was unusual for a residence of the period. The nomination treats it as the largest country house of its kind outside the Pittsburgh area and as the only identified domestic work by architect Joseph Kuntz, which gives it local importance.