Carrie Chapman Catt House
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Carrie Chapman Catt House, also known as Juniper Ledge, is a historic home located at Briarcliff Manor
Briarcliff Manor, New York
Briarcliff Manor is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York. It is shared between the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining, and lies entirely within the ZIP code of 10510...

 in Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...

. It is a bungalow
Bungalow
A bungalow is a type of house, with varying meanings across the world. Common features to many of these definitions include being detached, low-rise , and the use of verandahs...

 style dwelling believed to have been built about 1910. It is roughly "T" shaped and is two and one half stories in height, with a high pitched gable roof and clipped gable ends. The first story is of random coursed fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...

 and the upper stories are wood shingle clad. The front facade features a two story projecting bay of stone and a stone chimney rises out of the northern end. It was the residence of Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920...

 (1859-1947) from 1919 to 1928.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2006.
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