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Walker House

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Walker House

The Walker House is a Queen Anne Revival private residence located in Garrison, New York that is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. It was built in 1885 by Samuel Sloan, a prominent 19th century railroad magnate, on the grounds of his own Garrison estate, Oulagisket. In 1894, Sloa

n gave the Walker House to his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, Joseph Walker, Jr., although it had been initially used by one of his sons, William S. Sloan. Sloan built it next to Wyndune, the house that he had built and given in 1883 to Elizabeth's older sister, Margaret, and her husband, Rev. Joseph Rankin Duryee. The Walker House, Oulagisket, and Wyndune all remain today as privately owned homes, monuments to a long-ago era in the history of the Hudson Valley. In 1927 Duryee wrote and published a 175-page-long biography of Sloan and his wife, Margaret Elmendorf Sloan, covering their lives and family, time in the Hudson Valley, and Sloan's business career (Duryee, Joseph Rankin: The Story of Samuel and Margaret Sloan; Published Privately for Family Circulation Only, 1927, 100 copies; reprinted, 2013, ISHI Press International). The biography states that, because of the deaths...

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