Neiderhurst is a historic estate

Estate (house)

An estate comprises the houses and outbuildings and supporting farmland and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house or mansion. It is the modern term for a manor, but lacks the latter's now abolished jurisdictional authority...

 located at Palisades

Palisades, New York

Palisades, formerly known as Sneden's Landing, is a hamlet in the Town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of Rockleigh and Alpine, New Jersey; east of Tappan; south of Sparkill; and west of the Hudson River....

 in Rockland County, New York

Rockland County, New York

Rockland County is a suburban county 15 miles to the northwest of Manhattan and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the southernmost county in New York west of the Hudson River, and the smallest county in New York outside of New York City. The...

. The main estate house was built as a summer home between 1872 and 1874 in the High Victorian Gothic

Gothic Revival architecture

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 style. It is a two story, "L" shaped residence surmounted by steep gable roofs. It was built by Winthrop S. Gilman, Jr. (1839–1923), son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman

Winthrop Sargent Gilman

Winthrop Sargent Gilman was head of the banking house of Gilman, Son & Co. in New York City.-Biography:He was born in Marietta, Ohio to merchant Benjamin Ives Gilman and Hannah Gilman...

 (1808–1884). Also on the property are a small observatory

Observatory

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 converted to a cote; Fern Lodge, built 1866, a residntial outbuilding that was formerly the stables; a barn converted to residential use; a concrete pergola

Pergola

A pergola, arbor or arbour is a garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained...

; and stone shed. The estate grounds retain a park-like quality.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1990.