Edgewater (Barrytown, New York)

Edgewater is an architecturally significant, early 19th-century house located near the hamlet of Barrytown in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Built about 1824, the house is a contributing property to the Hudson River Historic District. Edgewater's principal architectural feature is a monumental colonnade of six Doric columns, looking out across a lawn to the Hudson River. Writing in 1942, the historians Eberlein and Hubbard described Edgewater as an exemplar of "the combined dignity and subtle grace that marked the houses of the Federal Era."

Edgewater
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
West Facade of Edgewater in 2018.
LocationBarrytown, New York
Part ofHudson River Historic District
NRHP reference No.90002219
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 14, 1990
Designated CPDecember 14, 1990
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.