The Beecher-McFadden Estate is a historic

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located on East Main Street in

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Description and history

The estate includes an imposing brick mansion and a large support building set among scenic landscaping. The mansion, designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee, was originally built in 1877 in a Victorian Gothic style, and was extensively remodeled in the 1920s in the Tudor Revival style. It is a large, -story, asymmetrical brick building with stone trim, Tudor arches, and plain balustrades. The north elevation retains the original -story, red brick walls with polychrome brick trim. The large support structure has a two-story center section, flanked by -story wings, and is in the

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style. The property was originally developed by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), then purchased by the locally prominent McFadden family in 1902. ''See also:'' It was added to the

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on November 2, 1987.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Tudor Revival architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1875 Houses in Westchester County, New York Buildings and structures in Peekskill, New York National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York African-American history of Westchester County, New York {{WestchesterCountyNY-NRHP-stub