William H. Rose House

The William H. Rose House is located on Tomkins Avenue in Stony Point, New York, United States.

It is an ornate Carpenter Gothic-style house from the mid-19th century, with similar outbuildings, built for a wealthy local businessman.

In order to preserve it during the construction of a nearby senior citizens' home during the late 20th century, it was moved from its original site a short distance away and rotated.

The house is located on an 0.4-acre (1,600 m2) lot a short distance east of North Liberty Drive (US 9W/202), at the corner of Tomkins and Roosevelt Place.

[2] It is a two-and-a-half-story, five-by-three-bay balloon frame house on a concrete foundation topped by a steeply-pitched cross-gabled roof shingled in slate, pierced by two brick chimneys at the sides.

Very little of the land around Stony Point was arable, and in the early 19th century brickmaking arose as the dominant industry due to the abundant clay underground near the Hudson.

[2] The design, by an unknown architect, shows the strong posthumous influence of the philosophies of Andrew Jackson Downing and the cottage-type houses he promoted.

Those led to it being sold to Roy Moskoff, once again for $1, on the condition that the house and outbuildings be moved 200 feet (61 m) across the street and rotated.