Arden (estate)

Arden (estate)

Infobox nrhp
name = Arden (E.H. Harriman Estate)
nrhp_type = nhl



caption = House in 2003
location = Harriman, NY
nearest_city = Newburgh
lat_degrees = 41 | lat_minutes = 17 | lat_seconds = 48 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 74 | long_minutes = 07 | long_seconds = 09 | long_direction = W
area =
built = 1886 or 1909
architect = Carrère and Hastings
architecture =
designated = November 13, 1966 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=404&ResourceType=Building
title=Arden (E.H. Harriman Estate)|date=2007-11-13|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service
]
added = November 13, 1966 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
visitation_num = | visitation_year =
refnum = 66000561
mpsub =
governing_body = Columbia University

Arden was the name of the 30,000-acre (120 km² ) estate owned by railroad magnate Edward Harriman and Mary Averell Harriman outside Harriman, New York. The site is also known as E.H. Harriman Estate. The main house is located at the top of a mountain east of the hamlet, reachable by Arden House Road from NY 17

In 1885 Harriman learned that the 7,863-acre (32 km²) Parrott family estate was for sale. He bought it for $52,500 and named it in honor of Mrs. Parrot— it was her maiden name. Over the next several years he purchased an additional twenty thousand acres (80 km²), almost forty different parcels of land, and built forty miles of bridle paths to connect them all. The area around the estate, south of the nearby village of Harriman, became known as Arden as well. Harriman had planned it for many years, but lived in it for only a few months before his death.It was from this estate that his widow would donate ten thousand acres (40 km²) and one million dollars to the state to start Harriman State Park in 1910. The house is presently used as a conference center by Columbia University. It is a National Historic Landmark but is not open to the public.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000561.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Arden (E.H. Harriman Estate)] |390 KB|author=Richard Greenwood |date=December 17, 1975|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000561.pdf Accompanying photos, exterior, from 1962 and 1975.] |2.65 MB]

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