Big House is a historic home located at
Palisades in
Rockland County, New York
Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is about from the Bronx at their closest points. The county's population, as of t ...
. The Big House is the oldest dwelling in Palisades and the only building remaining from the hamlet's formative years.
It was built about 1735 and is a large stone dwelling in a vernacular ethnic "Dutch" style. It consists of a rectangular central block flanked on either side by wings.
[ ''See also:'' ] In the nomination for the National Register of Historic Places it is further described as embodying
the distinctive characteristics of the eighteenth-century regional Dutch vernacular building tradition, specifically its -story, gable-roofed form, linear plan, multiple entrances, and masonry construction.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1990.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state)
Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1735
Houses in Rockland County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Rockland County, New York
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