Thomas Nelson House is a historic home located at Peekskill

Peekskill, New York

Peekskill is a city in Westchester County, New York. It is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point.This community was known to be an early American industrial center, primarily for its iron plow and stove products...

, Westchester County, New York

Westchester County, New York

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. It was built about 1860 and is a two story, frame dwelling with a slightly hipped roof in the Italianate

Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...

 style. It has a two story rear wing. It is clad in clapboard and sits on a stone and brick foundation. It features a one story, open front porch with scrolled brackets, paired posts, and bracketed eaves. Also on the property is a contributing well house.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2001.