Built 1835 Opened 1835 Added to NRHP 22 February 2010 | NRHP Reference # 10000032 Area 4,900 m² | |
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Location 600 Milton Rd., Rye, New York Address 600 Milton Rd, Rye, NY 10580, USA Similar Playland, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden | ||
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Bird Homestead, also known as the Bouton-Bird-Erikson Homestead, is a historic home and farm complex located in Rye, Westchester County, New York. The property is situated on Blind Brook estuary, off the Long Island Sound. The property is adjacent to the Rye Meeting House. The main part of the house was built in 1835, and is a two-story, three-bay wide frame building in the Greek Revival style. It sits on a brick foundation and has a low-pitched, side gable roof. It features a one-story, full-width, front porch. Also on the property are a contributing two-story barn built in the 1880s and a long, one-story outbuilding.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. It is operated along with the adjacent Rye Meeting House, by the not-for-profit Committee to Save the Bird Homestead.
The home was owned by five generations of the Bouton-Bird-Erickson family for over 150 years. Henry Bird was renowned entomologist; his sons Roland and Junius were pioneers in the fields of paleontology and archaeology, respectively. Many of their discoveries can be seen at the American Museum of Natural History. Henry’s daughter Alice Bird Erikson was an accomplished nature illustrator while Doris Bird spent more than forty years as the children’s librarian at the Rye Free Reading Room.