Emma Flower Taylor Mansion
Watertown, New York, listed on the NRHP in Jefferson County
Emma Flower Taylor Mansion is a historic home located at Watertown in Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1896–1897 and is a massive 2+1⁄2-story mansion constructed of rock faced, random course Medina sandstone which was hand-cut on site. The footprint is 5,628 square feet (522.9 m2), not including the porches and porte cochere. It is Queen Anne in style and features wraparound porches, towers, projecting bays, dormers, and a complex roofline. It was constructed as a wedding gift to his daughter by New York Governor Roswell Pettibone Flower.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Emma Flower Taylor Mansion” as watertown, New York, listed on the NRHP in Jefferson County. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as watertown, New York, listed on the NRHP in Jefferson County. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5372799. Authority coordinates are 43.972, -75.918. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1897 and 2002.
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