Hiddenhurst is the former estate of businessman Thomas Hidden, on Sheffield Hill Road in the Town of North East, New York, United States, south of the village of Millerton.
Hiddenhurst is a complex of three buildings on a 44-acre (18 ha) lot on the northside of Sheffield Hill, a half-mile (1 km) west of the Connecticut state line.
The other properties in the area are farms, with much open land offering views into the Harlem Valley to the south and the Taconic Mountains to the north.
To its south is an L-shaped two-story frame hipped-roof clapboard-sided caretakers' house with a gabled wing joined by a breezeway to a garage.
The house is a two-story, three-bay clapboard-sided structure with a hipped roof resting on a large plinth block of undressed ashlar masonry.
Steps lead up to a deck with paired fluted columns with Tuscan capitals supporting a projecting architrave with a paneled underside.
Between them is the main entrance, a leaded half-glass door with quarter pilasters and sidelights topped by an elliptical transom above a small cornice of ogee and drillwork molding with a volute keystone.
[1] French doors in the other two bays round out the fenestration on the first story, with eight-over-one double-hung sash windows above in projecting moldings.
Quoins interrupt the clapboard at the corners, with the whole facade topped by a frieze with egg-and-dart and dentil molding running continuously around the house, as does the modillioned block cornice at the roofline.
On the east side, the dining room cornice matches that in the hall, while the ceiling pargeting is a series of bands of various foliate motifs.
The open cantilevered spiral staircase is balustraded with simple turnings contrasting with an intricate foliate carving on the step area of the stringer.
It rises to a dome with curved triangular coffers separated by olive branch carvings and a stained glass window in the oculus depicting hollyhock festoons.
Thomas Hidden, a New York City businessman who had made his fortune in paint manufacture and real estate, assembled all or part of four dairy farms in the Coleman Station area in 1903.
[1] He was one of the first wealthy New Yorkers to choose the Millerton area, as opposed to neighboring Sharon, Connecticut, and other towns in that state's Northwest Highlands, as a place for a country home.
A horse breeder, he found the area an ideal place for that activity, with convenient nearby rail access to the city via the tracks originally built for the New York and Harlem Railroad.
In the early 1970s an old brick farmhouse and carriage house on the estate that Hidden had kept were demolished by the then-owners, and the original Scomozzi capitals on the front portico's entrance columns were replaced with the current Tuscan ones.