Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 82003412 Added to NRHP 22 April 1982 | Built 1720 Opened 1720 | |
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Location John Lyon Park, King St., Port Chester, New York Similar Life Savers Building, Ever Rest, St Peter's Episcopal Church, Thomas Paine Cottage, John Jay Homestead State Hist | ||
Bush-Lyon Homestead is a historic home located at Port Chester, Westchester County, New York. The earliest part was built about 1720. It is a 1 1⁄2-story, five-by-two-bay, frame residence faced in shingles and clapboards. It has a center stone chimney. The rear kitchen wing and 1-story north wing were added about 1800 and the house given its saltbox configuration. In the mid-19th century, the present porch was added with its Doric order piers and a 1-story, gable-roofed wing added. Also on the property are a carriage house, former slave quarters, and a storage building / corn crib. The property was purchased by the village in 1925 from the Bush estate. It served as headquarters for General Israel Putnam, 1777–1778.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.