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Highland Cottage

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Highland Cottage, also known as Squire House, is a Gothic Revival house on South Highland Avenue in Ossining, New York, built in 1872 to a design by the architect S. Marvin McCord as the first concrete house in Westchester County. Over its history the building has served as a sanitarium, a hospital, a restaurant, and a business school before returning to residential use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and later recognized as a contributing property of the Downtown Ossining Historic District. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
New York, United States 2
Completed Year
1872 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Connections

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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Source Highland Cottage (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Concrete, Elements and Materials
Source Highland Cottage (Wikipedia)
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1. Highland Cottage (Wikipedia)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Highland Cottage, also known as Squire House, is a Gothic Revival house on South Highland Avenue in Ossining, New York, built in 1872 to a design by the architect S. Marvin McCord as the first concrete house in Westchester County. Over its history the building has served as a sanitarium, a hospital, a restaurant, and a business school before returning to residential use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and later recognized as a contributing property of the Downtown Ossining Historic District.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1872)
    completion_date/completed = 1872
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
    Highland Cottage, also known as Squire House, is located on South Highland Avenue (U.S. Route 9) in Ossining, New York, United States. It was the first concrete house in Westchester County, built in the 1870s in the Gothic Revival architectural style. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; almost 30 years later, it was added to the nearby Downtown Ossining Historic Dist
  • In Style: Gothic Revival, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Gothic Revival
  • Uses Element: Concrete, Wikipedia lead
    It was the first concrete house in Westchester County, built in the 1870s in the Gothic Revival architectural style.
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2. Highland Cottage (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: New York, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: New York, United States
Wikidata item Q5758724, property P131/P17 (location): New York, United States
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