Gardiner-Tyler House is a historic home located at West New Brighton

West New Brighton, Staten Island

West New Brighton is a neighborhood of New York City, Richmond County, USA, situated along the central North Shore of Staten Island...

, Staten Island, New York. It was built about 1835 and is a two story, Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

 style frame dwelling covered in clapboards. It features a two story, tetrastyle portico

Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...

 with four fluted Corinthian order

Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order...

 columns. The house was the home of Julia Gardiner Tyler

Julia Gardiner Tyler

Julia Gardiner Tyler , second wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845.-Early life:...

 (1820-1889) from 1868 to 1874.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1984.