Roosevelt Point Cottage and Boathouse
Why it's listed
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.
Significance in brief: 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.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 93000851, listed September 2, 1993. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | River Point Rd. at the Hudson R., Hyde Park |
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| County | Dutchess County |
| Listed | September 2, 1993 |
| Reference number | 93000851 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | ca.1860 |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | 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. |
| Acreage | 5 |
| Coordinates | 41.73962, -73.93630 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
National Register listing is honorary for a privately owned home: it does not by itself restrict what an owner may do with their own money, and it does not require public access. Restrictions come from local landmark or historic-district ordinances, which are separate (how they differ).
Owner-occupied houses are not eligible for the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit, which applies to income-producing buildings, but many states offer credits for homeowners. Listing also opens the door to preservation easements and to buying a plaque. Start with what listing means for homeowners, renovating a listed house and selling one.
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Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 93000851.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q7366485
- This listing as JSON
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