Robert Colgate House

Robert Colgate House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York City Landmark  No. 0672
Seen in June 2013
Location	5225 Sycamore Ave., Bronx, New York
Coordinates	40°54′7″N73°54′45″W / 40.90194°N 73.91250°W / 40.90194; -73.91250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1860
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	83001638 [1]
NYCL No.	0672
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 8, 1983
Designated NYCL	October 13, 1970

Robert Colgate House, also known as Stonehurst, is a historic home located in the Hudson Hill section of the Bronx in New York City. It was built about 1860 and is a two-story picturesque Italianate villa built of ashlar Maine granite. It features a low-pitched dormered roof with broad eaves surrounding a flat deck. It was built for Robert Colgate (1812–1885), son of pioneer soap manufacturer William Colgate. ^[2]

Colgate purchased the land in 1860 from Ann Cromwell; it had previously been owned by William G. Ackerman. The Riverdale Presbyterian Church was organized at a meeting held in Colgate's house in 1863. ^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. L. E. Gobrecht (August 1982). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Colgate, Robert, House. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved October 24, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
3. "Robert Colgate House", Landmarks Preservation Committee, October 13, 1970, LP-0673

External links

Media related to Robert Colgate House at Wikimedia Commons

• "MINING ENGINEER BUYS PERKINS COUNTRY HOME; Stonehurst, With 10 Acres, Passes to Spruille Braden, Who Will Reside There," The New York Times, October 11, 1922.