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TITLE:
Val-Kill, Stone Cottage, State Route 9G, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, NY

CALL NUMBER:
HABS NY,14-HYP,8A-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 3  (24 x 36 in.)

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Toombs, Henry

NOTE:
Survey number HABS NY-5666-A

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-278, FN-279, FN-280).

Building/structure dates: 1926 initial construction

Significance: It was built in 1925-26 as a summer and weekend retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt. The house was designed by Henry Toombs of McKim, Mead & White with the close supervision of Franklin D. Roosevelt. At FDR's insistence, the cottage is a copy of the early Dutch Colonial style of architecture found in the Hudson Valley and was built with local fieldstone taken from stone walls on surrounding property.

SUBJECTS:
NEW YORK--Dutchess County--Hyde Park

OTHER TITLE:
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny0170

CONTROL #:
NY0170

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