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John Ellis Roosevelt Estate
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| Location: | Middle Road, Sayville, New York |
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| Area: | 86 acres (35 ha) |
| Built: | 1850 |
| Architect: | Green, I.H. |
| Architectural style: | Colonial Revival |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: | 87001896[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | November 5, 1987 |
John Ellis Roosevelt Estate, also known as Meadowcroft, is a historic estate located at Sayville in Suffolk County, New York. The main house, roughly "L" shaped, is composed of two distinct parts: the original farmhouse, built about 1850, and now the rear of the house; and the larger, more formal Colonial Revival mansion built 1891-1892 and set perpendicular to it. The original section is a two story, rectangular farmhouse, sheathed in clapboard and surmounted by a gable roof. The 1891-1892 section is a clapboarded, two story structure with an elaborate facade with generous porch and surmounted by a steeply pitched, truncated hipped roof. Also on the property are contributing carriage house, equipment barn, garage, caretaker's cottage, swimming pool, storage hut, and archaeological sites. The property was purchased by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829–1906) in 1873; his son John Ellis Roosevelt (1853–1939) commissioned the estate.[2]
The estate is located on the grounds of Sans Soucci Lakes County Park, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]