The Woodpile is a historic family estate and national

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located at

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. The district contains 17 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and nine contributing structures. The three primary residences are set on the east side of Croton Lake Road, one north of its junction with Wood Road and two south. All three look over a designed landscape on the west side of Croton Lake Road, which is part of the historic district. The oldest residence, known as Brambleworth, is a stone

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

cottage designed by A. J. Davis and completed in 1847. The middle residence, known as Evergreen Lawn, was built in 1856 and is in the

Italian Villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas ...

style. The third residence, known as Braewold, was designed by architect Addison Hutton (1834–1916) and is a stone Second Empire style building built in 1870. ''See also:'' The district was added to the

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in 1992.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Second Empire architecture in New York (state) Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1847 Historic districts in Westchester County, New York 1847 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York {{WestchesterCountyNY-NRHP-stub