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Box Hill Estate is a national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
located in St. James in
Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County ( ) is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York, constituting the eastern two-thirds of Long Island. It is bordered to its west by Nassau County, to its east by Gardiners Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean, to its no ...
. The district encompasses an estate that includes five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The estate house was the summer home of
Stanford White Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. White designed many houses ...
. It was built in 1885 and is a rambling, multi-gabled structure surfaced in pebblestone dashed
stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and ...
. It features a one-story
verandah A veranda (also spelled verandah in Australian and New Zealand English) is a roofed, open-air hallway or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front an ...
defined by a range of fluted columns. Also on the property are a contributing cottage, barn,
carriage house A ''carriage house'', also called a ''remise'' or ''coach house'', is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. Carriage houses were often two ...
, stable, and water tower. ''See also:'' It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1973.


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Box Hill (Old Long Island)
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Houses completed in 1885 Houses in Suffolk County, New York Stanford White buildings National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York Family of Stanford White {{SuffolkCountyNY-NRHP-stub