Built 1896 NRHP Reference # 93000862 Area 5 ha | Architect McKim, Charles F. Opened 1896 Added to NRHP 19 August 1993 | |
Location Howard Blvd., Hyde Park, New York Architectural style Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian Similar Vanderbilt Mansion National, Margaret Lewis Norrie St, Staatsburgh State Historic S, Esopus Meadows Light, Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Ch |
Howard Mansion and Carriage House is a historic mansion and carriage house located at Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York. It was designed by noted architect Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) and built in 1896. It is a two-story, six-bay, eclectic dwelling built of uncoursed fieldstone. It is rectangular in plan and has a wood shingled roof with overhanging twin gables. The front entrance is a Dutch door and features a portico supported by two square, bracketed columns. The carriage house is a two-story, wood frame, stucco covered, Tudor style building built in 1901. It features a two-story, polygonal bay with a polygonal roof. The home was built by Frederick W. Vanderbilt for his nephew, Thomas H. Howard.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.