Isaac Young House
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Isaac Young House
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East profile and north (front) elevation, 2009
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| Location | New Castle, NY |
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| Nearest city | White Plains |
| Coordinates | 41°11′36″N 73°48′59″W / 41.19333°N 73.81639°WCoordinates: 41°11′36″N 73°48′59″W / 41.19333°N 73.81639°W |
| Area | 5.8 acres (2.3 ha) |
| Built | ca. 1872. |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP reference # | 04000876 |
| Added to NRHP | August 20, 2004 |
Isaac Young House is an historic wood frame house on Pinesbridge Road in New Castle, New York, United States. It was built about 1872 in the Second Empire style. Its owner, Isaac Young, was a descendant of early settlers in the area. He chose the Second Empire style, more commonly found in cities and villages than on farms, possibly as a way of demonstrating his affluence. The present structure appears to incorporate parts of a vernacular late 18th-century farmhouse, leaving several anomalies in the current house as a result. The house's position atop a low hill would have, in its time, given it a commanding view of the region, including the Hudson River and New York City's skyline.
Isaac Young House is the only Second Empire house from that era in New Castle. There have been several renovations and alterations, including the removal of its original Italianate central tower. The current owners restored it extensively after purchasing it from the Youngs. In 2004 the house and its barn were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The earliest recorded owner of the property on which the house now stands is a Henry and Mary Slason, who sold 140 acres (57 ha) including its current lot to a Gilbert Strang in 1795. Over the course of the early 19th century it was subdivided further and eventually became property of the Chadeayne family, owners of other large parcels in the area.
Isaac Young was a native of Putnam County to the north, who had come to New Castle from his father's farm in Southeast ten years after the older man's death in 1846. He worked on the farm of the Chadeaynes' neighbors the Vails, where the father had died around the same time, leaving his widow and three of their children to tend things. In that job he became acquainted with Mary, and the two wed in 1858. At some point after the 1860 census, the couple moved out and began looking for land they could farm on their own. In 1868, the present property comprising two parcels of land, a combined 36 acres (15 ha), were sold to Elizabeth Young, Isaac's wife.
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