Newcomb–Brown Estate

New York, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Newcomb–Brown Estate stands at the junction of US Route 44 and Brown Road in Pleasant Valley, New York, a brick Georgian structure built in the late 18th century on the eve of the American Revolution. Originally the home of farmer Zaccheus Newcomb, whose landholdings once encompassed much of the surrounding area, the house retains its fundamental Georgian character while displaying subtle influences from the region's early Dutch settlers. Though subdivided and sold across the nineteenth century, the property returned to the Brown family in the early twentieth century, when a descendant acquired it and converted the working farm into a country house, undertaking careful restoration and minor modifications that preserved its essential integrity. The estate, along with several associated outbuildings from its farming period, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.