Walker House
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The Walker House is a Queen Anne Revival private residence located in Garrison, New York that is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. It was built in 1885 by Samuel Sloan, a prominent 19th century railroad magnate, on the grounds of his own Garrison estate, Oulagisket. In 1894, Sloan gave the Walker House to his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, Joseph Walker, Jr., although it had been initially used by one of his sons, William S. Sloan. Sloan built it next to Wyndune, the house that he had built and given in 1883 to Elizabeth's older sister, Margaret, and her husband, Rev. Joseph Rankin Duryee. The Walker House, Oulagisket, and Wyndune all remain today as privately owned homes, monuments to a long-ago era in the history of the Hudson Valley. In 1927 Duryee wrote and published a 175-page-long biography of Sloan and his wife, Margaret Elmendorf Sloan, covering their lives and family, time in the Hudson Valley, and Sloan's business career (Duryee, Joseph Rankin: The Story of Samuel and Margaret Sloan; Published Privately for Family Circulation Only, 1927, 100 copies; reprinted, 2013, ISHI Press International). The biography states that, because of the deaths of two of their children in 1861, the Sloans began looking for a location where they could build a summer estate outside of New York City. The Sloans began buying land in Garrison during the Civil War and, according to the Duryee biography, were encouraged to do so by Governor Hamilton Fish and also by William H. Osborn, both of whom had recently built extensive summer estates in Garrison. The Sloans built their own Garrison summer estate, Oulagisket (later renamed Lisburne Grange by his son) in 1864, immediately adjacent to the Osborn estate. Sloan and his wife built the Walker House near Oulagisket and adjacent to Wyndune in 1885. It was originally occupied by their son, William, but was given to their daughter, Elizabeth La Grange Sloan (1862 - 1960), and her husband, Joseph Walker, Jr.(1858-1927). In 1982 both the Walker House and Oulagisket were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hudson Highlands Multiple Resource Area.
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When was Walker House listed on the National Register?
Walker House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1982.
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Walker House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Walker House is recorded as the industrial era.
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