Bellefield Mansion and Estate: Historic Structure and Grounds Report, Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, National Park Service
Snell CW. 1981. Bellefield Mansion and Estate: Historic Structure and Grounds Report, Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, National Park Service. Historic Grounds Report. NPS Northeast Regional Office. Northeast Regional Office
Historic Structure and Grounds Report for Bellefield Mansion at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. The purpose of this report is to satisfy the historical research needed as outlined in the development study package proposal 122 that requests the preparation of a historic structure and grounds report, historical data section, for the Bellefield (Newbold-Morgan) mansion and estate. Research was conducted at Hyde Park, Poughkeepsie, and New York City from November 2 to November 19, 1977. As discussed in the Master Plan, development of the site included the following proposals: A portion of the existing dual entrance road into the national historic site will be realigned to serve a new parking area location on the Morgan property. The new parking area will be screened from the FDR home. The existing parking area and ticket booth will be removed, and the historic vegetable garden will be reestablished. A small visitor orientation/interpretation facility will be built near the new parking area to give visitors a brief interpretive introduction to both the home and the library. The plan also stated that cooperative use of the property for school-group programs and by other groups and organizataions should be considered, subject to termination agreements by the National Park Service. The October 1978 revisior of the “Statement for Management” called for the Morgan property to be administered as historic zone lands. The statement also said that the buildings and grounds are being adaptively used for administrative purposes while preserving the historic integrity of the resources in recognition of their category IIB level of significance. The park offices for the FDR home; Vanderbilt mansion, and Eleanor Roosevelt national historic sites are located in the Bellefield mansion. Inclusion of the Bellefield estate on the List of Classified Structures and the listing of the land and buildings on the National Register of Historic Places will be accomplished as an aftermath of the compilation of this report.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Snell, Charles
- Date of Issue
- 1981-12
- Publisher
- NPS Northeast Regional Office
- Units
- HOFR , NER
- Keywords
- Bellefield, Colonial Revival Style, Dutchess County, formal gardens, Gerald Morgan, McKim Mead and White, New York, Newbold-Morgan Property, outbuildings, Thomas Newbold, Victorian style