Delafield Hunting Lodge (New York City, New York)

 residence, lodge, interesting place

The Fieldston estate lodge c.1867, appears to be a rare example in New York City of a 19th-century rural bracketed, board-and-batten estate outbuilding. In 1829, Major Joseph Delafield, president of the Lyceum of Natural History in New York, acquired the 257-acre Hadley farm that spread eastward from the shore of the Hudson River. Delafield named his estate Fieldston after his family's seat in Ireland, and established a profitable lime kiln on the property in 1830. The first cottage named Fieldston Lodge, since demolished, was built in 1849. His will, written in 1867, mentions that the property then contained two cottages, a hunting lodge, stable, coachhouse and laundry, among other outbuildings. This structure at 6 Ploughman's Bush remains the only surviving building remnant of the original Fieldston Estate.