Thomas Nelson House
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Thomas Nelson House, December 2000
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Thomas Nelson spent the earlier years of his career working with his father, WIlliam Nelson, in his office in Peekskill. The home was most likely the family’s summer home while Nelson worked in Manhattan, although it served as Nelson’s official residence during his failed Congressional campaign in 1860.[1]
Judge Thomas Nelson died at the house in 1907 at the age of 88. In the decades following his death, much of the estimated 8.5 acre property was sold off.[2] The remaining one and a half acre of land stayed with the family until the 1940s, after this it as the home of the former mayor of Peekskill and architect, Ralph Hopkins. It remains a private home today.
Sources
[1] Williams, Gray. Jackson, Kenneth T.. Picturing Our Past: National Register Sites in Westchester County.
[2] “National Register of Historic Places Inventory.” United States Department of the Interior-National Parks Service, completed by Karen Burghart.
United States Department of the Interior - National Parks Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_House_(Peekskill,_New_York)
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