Seven Oaks Estate
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| Location | End of Ludlow Ln., Palisades, New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°0′26″N 73°54′33″W / 41.00722°N 73.90917°W |
| Area | 15.3 acres (6.2 ha) |
| Built | 1862 |
| Architect | George E. Woodward |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| MPS | Palisades MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 90001013[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 12, 1990 |
Seven Oaks Estate, the former Charles F. Park estate, is a historic estate located at Palisades in Rockland County, New York designed by George E. Woodward, an editor of The Horticulturist magazine.[2] The main estate house is a large clapboarded structure built in 1862 in the Gothic Revival style, with cues from Calvert Vaux's Villas and Cottages (1857). The house features a projecting central bay and full-width verandah. Also on the property are a coachman's house, built about 1862, and four subsidiary outbuildings.[3]
Beyond its basic architectural description, Seven Oaks Estate is significant as one of the earliest surviving estates from Palisades’ development as a summer retreat community in the mid-19th century. It reflects a broader historical trend in which wealthy New Yorkers built country homes along the Hudson River as transportation improvements made such (المناطق) accessible.[4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
