Boston Post Road Historic District (Rye, New York)
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Boston Post Road Historic District
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Whitby Castle, one of three antebellum mansions in the Boston Post Road Historic District
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| Location | Rye, New York |
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| Built | 1838-1854 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 82001275 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 29, 1982 |
| Designated NHLD | August 30, 1993 |
The Boston Post Road Historic District is an historic district that includes three pre-Civil War mansions and their grounds, a 10,000-year-old Paleo-Indian meadow and viewshed, a cemetery, and a nature preserve. It touches on the south side of the nation's oldest road, the Boston Post Road (US 1) in Rye, New York, where a sandstone Westchester Turnpike marker "24", inspired by Benjamin Franklin's original mile marker system, is set into the perimeter wall. From there the landmarked area of 286 acres (1.16 km2) expands down to the Milton Harbor of the Long Island Sound. Two of the mansions included in the landmark district are Greek Revival; the third is Gothic Revival and was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis.
This site, with its archaeological significance and importance to American heritage, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. The three-quarters-mile (1.2 km) meadow and viewshed is one of fewer than a dozen such identified Paleo-Indian sites in all of New York State.
Included within the district are the following historic structures, associated buildings, and grounds:
Also included are:
Coordinates: 40°57′31″N 73°42′07″W / 40.958487°N 73.701922°W
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