Walker House (Garrison, New York)
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Walker House
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East (front) elevation and south profile, 2008
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| Location | Garrison, NY |
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| Coordinates | 41°22′23″N 73°56′01″W / 41.37306°N 73.93361°WCoordinates: 41°22′23″N 73°56′01″W / 41.37306°N 73.93361°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1885 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| MPS | Hudson Highlands MRA |
| NRHP reference # | 82001256 |
| Added to NRHP | November 23, 1982 |
The Walker House in Garrison, New York, United States, is located on New York State Route 403, between Routes 9 and 9D. It is a large Queen Anne-style house constructed in 1888.
Samuel Sloan was a prominent 19th century railroad magnate, best known for his 32-year tenure as president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. He and his wife, Margaret Elmendorf Sloan, purchased large tracts of land in Garrison, New York before and after the Civil War. They built their summer estate, Oulagisket (later renamed Lisburne Grange by his son), in Garrison in 1864. Sloan and his wife built the Walker House on their Garrison estate near Oulagisket in 1888. It was a wedding gift to their daughter, Elizabeth La Grange Sloan (1862 - 1960), upon the occasion of her marriage on April 27, 1887 to Joseph Walker, Jr. (1858 - 1927). Walker became a senior partner and president of the investment banking firm of Joseph Walker & Sons and member of the New York Stock Exchange. 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.
The Walker House is situated on a four-acre (1.6 ha) lot. It is surrounded by tall trees; the deep ravine created by Arden Brook as well as the steep slope of Fort Hill elevate the house above the road and, together, partially obstruct the view of the house from it. A driveway curves up the slope from the east to the front facade.
The building itself is a three-story frame home on a brick foundation with several nested roofs shingled in slate, together with a copper porch roof. The wraparound porch extends across the front of the house and around most of the west side and part of the east side. The steeply-pitched main roof is done in a chateau style with eyebrow vents on all sides; the original crockets on the gable ridges were removed when the original slate roof was replaced with new slates in 2001-2002.
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