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Archibald Rogers Estate, also known as "Crumwold," is a historic mansion located at Hyde Park in
Dutchess County, New York Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later or ...
. It was designed by noted New York architect Richard Morris Hunt. The house is currently owned by the Millennial Kingdom Family Church, a Christian group.


History

In 1842 the land was owned by Elias Butler who gave the place the name "Crumwold". The Miller and Hoffman families resided on a portion of this property. Archibald Rogers purchased it in 1889.''Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties New York'', Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912
/ref> In his book "Colonel Archibald Rogers And the Crumwold Estate" author Carney Rhinevault, Hyde Park Town Historian, provides the following details. Crumwold Hall was occupied by the 306 Military Police from 1942 to 1945, as they protected President Roosevelt, who lived next door. When the President died in 1945, the MP's were transferred to the coach house at the Vanderbilt mansion to guard the President's grave. In 1947, Daniel Trosky purchased the mansion and sold part of the estate to provide the money needed to begin building homes on quarter-acre lots. In 1948, Trosky attempted to create the FDR school at Crumwold Hall, but that effort lasted only a couple of years. The school continued to exist when, in 1952, due to space problems it was moved to Shippan Point in Stamford CT. The school remained open and successful until 1984. In 1948, Trosky sold about 900 acres and thirteen outbuildings to John Watson Golden and his partners, and construction on what became known as Crumwold Acres began. In 1951, the building was purchased by the Catholic Church and Eymard Seminary High School was formed. In the 1970s, the Catholic Church decided to sell Eymard Seminary (Crumwold Hall). The property was purchased by J. Homer Butler.


Description

It is a three-story dwelling constructed of coursed Maine granite with
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
trim in the Chateauesque style. It is topped by a hipped roof and has eight stone chimneys and a center parapet. It features three towers, two with
conical roof A conical roof or cone roof is a cone-shaped roof that is circular at its base and terminates in a point. Distribution Conical roofs are frequently found on top of towers in medieval town fortifications and castles, where they may either si ...
s and the third with a pyramidal roof. Also on the property are a
carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open ...
and cottage. ''See also:'' The Crumwold Estate exists today, but instead of supporting only one family in Victorian grandeur, over 500 families, mostly in their own single-family homes, now live on Crumwold lands. Crumwold Hall is today owned by an ecumenical religious group called the Millennial Kingdom Family Church, which purchased the building and 69 acres from J. Homer Butler in 1983. It was added to 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 ...
in 1993.


References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Renaissance Revival architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1889 Houses in Hyde Park, New York National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York {{DutchessCountyNY-NRHP-stub