One Pendleton Place, New Brighton, Staten Island
One Pendleton Place, New Brighton, Staten Island
A major loan from our Historic Properties Fund helped restore the exterior of One Pendleton Place in New Brighton, Staten Island.
One Pendleton Place, New Brighton, Staten Island
The Conservancy’s Historic Properties Fund helped complete the long-term restoration of One Pendleton Place in New Brighton, Staten Island. Dating from 1861, One Pendleton Place was designed by Charles Duggin in the Stick style. It served as the second home of W.S. Pendleton, a successful businessman who owned a local ferryboat company and worked in real estate.
The owners purchased the abandoned property in 1983 and began restoring a multitude of period rooms, including the prominent widow’s walk. Although eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, the property is not a designated City landmark. Without requirements for its restoration, the owners themselves enthusiastically sought historically appropriate treatments.
A 1996 loan of $55,000 from the Historic Properties Fund had underwritten much-needed structural repair work to the foundation of the house. But a $100,000 HPF loan provided the funding necessary to complete exterior restoration in fall 2004. The owners were able to remove asphalt and siding, replace clapboards, restore the wraparound porch and the existing wood trim, reconfigure the house’s southeast corner, and paint the entire house.
