Archibald Rogers Estate
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Archibald Rogers Estate, also known as "Crumwold," is a historic mansion
Mansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...

 located at Hyde Park
Hyde Park, New York
Hyde Park is a town located in the northwest part of Dutchess County, New York, United States, just north of the city of Poughkeepsie. The town is most famous for being the hometown of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt....

 in Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County, New York
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. It was designed by noted New York architect Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt
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 and built between 1886 and 1889. It is a two story dwelling constructed of coursed Maine granite with sandstone
Sandstone
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...

 trim in the Chateauesque
French Renaissance architecture
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 style. It is topped by a hipped roof and has eight stone chimneys and a center parapet. It features three towers, two with conical roofs and the third with a pyramidal roof. Also on the property are a carriage house
Carriage house
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 and cottage
Cottage
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. The estate stayed in the Rogers family until 1942, when it became home to the Eymard Seminary. During the 180s it was sold to the Millennial Kingdom Church as a spiritual center.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1993.
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