The Woodpile is a historic estate and national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 located at Bedford

Bedford (town), New York

Bedford is a town in Westchester County, New York, USA. The population was 17,335 at the 2010 census.The Town of Bedford is located in the northeastern part of Westchester County, and contains the three hamlets of Bedford Hills, Bedford Village, and Katonah...

, Westchester County, New York

Westchester County, New York

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. The district contains 17 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and nine contributing structures. The oldest residence, known as Brambleworth, is a stone Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 cottage designed by Andrew Jackson Downing

Andrew Jackson Downing

Andrew Jackson Downing was an American landscape designer, horticulturalist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival style in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine...

 (1815-1852) and completed in 1847. The middle residence, known as Evergreen Lawn, was built in 1856 and is in the Italian Villa

Italianate architecture

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 style. The third residence, known as Braewold, was designed by noted architect Addison Hutton

Addison Hutton

Addison Hutton was a Philadelphia architect who designed prominent residences in Philadelphia and its suburbs, plus courthouses, hospitals, and libraries, including the Ridgway Library and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania...

 (1834–1916) and is a stone Second Empire style building built in 1870.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1992.