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Robert Colgate House

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Robert Colgate House, Bronx NY
Robert Colgate House, Bronx NY

Robert Colgate House, also known as Stonehurst, is a historic home located in the Hudson Hill section of the Bronx in New York City. It was built about 1860 and is a two-story picturesque Italianate villa built of ashlar Maine granite. It features a low-pitched dormered roof with broad eaves surrounding a flat deck. It was built for Robert Colgate (1812–1885), son of pioneer soap manufacturer William Colgate.Colgate purchased the land in 1860 from Ann Cromwell; it had previously been owned by William G. Ackerman. The Riverdale Presbyterian Church was organized at a meeting held in Colgate's house in 1863.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Robert Colgate House
Sycamore Avenue, New York The Bronx

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10471 New York, The Bronx
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