Robert Colgate House, also known as Stonehurst, is a historic home located in the Hudson Hill section of

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. It was built about 1860 and is a two-story picturesque

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villa built of ashlar Maine

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. It features a low-pitched dormered roof with broad eaves surrounding a flat deck. It was built for Robert Colgate (1812–1885), son of pioneer soap manufacturer

William Colgate William Colgate (January 25, 1783 – March 25, 1857) was an English-American soap industrialist who founded in 1806 what became the Colgate-Palmolive company. Early life William Colgate was born in Hollingbourne, Kent, England, on January 25, ...

. ''See also:'' Colgate purchased the land in 1860 from Ann Cromwell; it had previously been owned by William G. Ackerman. The Riverdale Presbyterian Church was organized at a meeting held in Colgate's house in 1863."Robert Colgate House", Landmarks Preservation Committee, October 13, 1970, LP-0673 It was listed on the

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in 1983.

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"MINING ENGINEER BUYS PERKINS COUNTRY HOME; Stonehurst, With 10 Acres, Passes to Spruille Braden, Who Will Reside There,"
''The New York Times'', October 11, 1922. Colgate family History of the Bronx Houses completed in 1860 Houses in the Bronx Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in the Bronx Italianate architecture in New York City New York City Designated Landmarks in the Bronx Riverdale, Bronx {{BronxNY-NRHP-stub