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37-524: It was designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis and built in 1844. It is a two-story, Gothic Revival style wood frame dwelling sheathed in board and batten siding. It has a hipped roof intersected by a front gable roof and features an ornamental verandah and ornamental pointed arch with two lancet arches. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house . It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1973. It

74-508: A Grand Tour of Europe in an effort to study in the style of the Old Masters and to paint its scenery. Most striking to Cole was Europe's tallest active volcano, Mount Etna . Cole was so moved by the volcano's beauty that he produced several sketches and at least six paintings of it. The most famous of these works is A View of Mount Etna from Taormina which is a 78-by-120-inch (1,980 by 3,050 mm) oil on canvas. Cole also produced

111-412: A designer of country houses. His villa "Lyndhurst" at Tarrytown, New York , is his most famous house. Many of his villas were built in the scenic Hudson River Valley —where his style informed the vernacular Hudson River Bracketed that gave Edith Wharton a title for a novel —but Davis sent plans and specifications to clients as far afield as Indiana. Around 1850, he designed Sharswood Plantation for

148-633: A domesticated Gothic Revival style, which could be executed in carpentry, and also containing the first of the Italianate style "Tuscan" villas, flat-roofed with wide overhanging eaves and picturesque corner towers. Unfortunately, the Panic of 1837 cut short his plans for a series of like volumes, but Davis soon formed a partnership with Andrew Jackson Downing , illustrating his widely read books. Additions to Vesper Cliff were built in 1834. The 1840s and 1850s were Davis's two most fruitful decades as

185-584: A highly detailed sketch View of Mount Etna which shows a panoramic view of the volcano with the crumbling walls of the ancient Greek theater of Taormina on the far right. Cole was also a poet and dabbled in architecture, a not uncommon practice at the time when the profession was not so codified. Cole was an entrant in the design competition held in 1838 to create the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio . His entry won third place, and many contend that

222-602: A similar pavilion for his colleague and fellow NYYC founder, John Clarkson Jay , on Jay's Long Island Sound waterfront property in Rye, New York , in 1849. Although this building was taken down in the 1950s, the original setting and garden where it was once located is part of a National Historic Landmark site and open to the public. Inspired in part by friend Andrew Jackson Downing , Davis constructed several Gothic Revival cottage-style homes in Central New York , including

259-633: A summer trip to the Hudson Valley where the artist produced landscapes featuring the Catskill Mountain House , the famous Kaaterskill Falls , the ruins of Fort Putnam , and two views of Cold Spring . Returning to New York, he displayed five landscapes in the window of William Colman's bookstore; according to the New York Evening Post the two views of Cold Spring were purchased by A. Seton, who lent them to

296-629: Is Whitby Castle, designed in 1852 for Davis' lifelong friend William Chapman. The building is part of the Boston Post Road Historic District (Rye, New York) and retains many original features. Today it is used as the clubhouse for the Rye Golf Club . Davis was invited to become a member of the American Institute of Architects shortly after its founding in 1857. In the late 1850s, Davis worked with

333-620: Is also a contributing property in the Rhinebeck Village Historic District . [REDACTED] Media related to Henry Delamater House at Wikimedia Commons This article about a historic property or district in Dutchess County , New York , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alexander Jackson Davis Alexander Jackson Davis (July 24, 1803 – January 14, 1892)

370-657: The American Academy of the Fine Arts annual exhibition in 1826. This garnered Cole the attention of John Trumbull , Asher B. Durand , and William Dunlap . Among the paintings was a landscape called View of Fort Ticonderoga from Gelyna . Trumbull was especially impressed with the work of the young artist and sought him out, bought one of his paintings, and put him into contact with a number of his wealthy friends including Robert Gilmor of Baltimore and Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford , who became important patrons of

407-666: The Dutch Reformed Church upriver in Newburgh, inspired by the Temple of Poseidon , both positioned for the viewing of maritime travelers. He continued in partnership with Town until shortly before Town's death in 1844. In 1831, he was elected an associate member of the National Academy. From 1835, Davis began work on his only publication, Rural Residences , the first pattern book for picturesque residences in

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444-564: The 1850s created the first entirely Gothic revival college campus, built in brick and stuccoed to imitate stone. Davis's plan for the Barracks quadrangle was interrupted by the Civil War ; it was sympathetically completed to designs of Bertram Goodhue in the early 20th century. Davis is credited with coining the term " Collegiate Gothic ", documented in a handwritten description of his own "English Collegiate Gothic Mansion" of 1853 for

481-586: The 1852-completed Reuel E. Smith House , which is included in the National Register of Historic Places . In 1851, Davis completed Winyah Park , one of approximately eighteen or more Italianate houses he designed in the 1850s. Winyah was built for Richard Lathers, who had studied architecture with Davis in New York in the 1830s. It was situated on Lathers's estate in the town of New Rochelle in Westchester County , New York. For this design Davis won

518-715: The Classical style. A series of consultations over state capitols followed, none apparently built entirely as Davis planned: the Indiana State House , Indianapolis (1831–1835), elicited calls for his advice and designs in building other state capitols in the 1830s: North Carolina's (1833–1840, with local architect David Paton), the Illinois State Capitol , often attributed entirely to the Springfield, Illinois architect John F. Rague , who

555-763: The Harrals of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He married Margaret Beale in 1853 and had two children. With the onset of Civil War in 1861, patronage in house building dried up, and after the war, new styles unsympathetic to Davis's nature were in vogue. In 1867, he designed the Hurst-Pierrepont Estate . In 1878, Davis closed his office. He built little in the last thirty years of his life, but spent his easy retirement in West Orange drawing plans for grandiose schemes that he never expected to build, and selecting and ordering his designs and papers, by which he

592-652: The New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution -era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism , urbanism , and westward expansion . Born in Bolton le Moors , Lancashire, in 1801, Cole immigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling in Steubenville, Ohio . At

629-546: The Virginian planter Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller. He designed Blandwood , the 1846 home of Governor John Motley Morehead that stands as America's earliest Italianate Tuscan Villa. Innovative interior features, including his designs for mantels and sideboards , were also widely imitated in the trade. Other influential interior details include pocket shutters at windows, bay windows , and mirrored surfaces to reflect natural light. The Greek Revival style William Walsh House

666-491: The age of 22, he moved to Philadelphia and later, in 1825, to Catskill, New York , where he lived with his wife and children until his death in 1848. Cole found work early on as an engraver. He was largely self-taught as a painter, relying on books and by studying the work of other artists. In 1822, he started working as a portrait painter and later on, gradually shifted his focus to landscape. In New York, Cole sold three paintings to George W. Bruen, who subsequently financed

703-563: The artist Frederic Remington purchased one of these cottages from which he created his estate "Endion", which served as the studio for most of his artistic career. The success of "Winyah Park" and "Lathers's Hill" generated other important commissions for Davis in New Rochelle, including two cottage-villas, Wildcliff and Sans Souci , which he designed for members of a prominent Davenport family. Both homes feature Davis's signature central gable . Another extant Gothic Revival commission

740-516: The artist. Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. The most famous of these are the five-part series, The Course of Empire , which depict the same landscape over generations—from a near state of nature to consummation of empire, and then decline and desolation—now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society and the four-part The Voyage of Life . There are two versions of

777-625: The entrepreneur Llewellyn S. Haskell to create Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey , a garden suburb that was one of the first planned residential communities in the United States. Davis designed buildings for the University of Michigan in 1838, and in the 1840s he designed buildings for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . At the Virginia Military Institute , Jackson's designs from 1848 through

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814-458: The finished building, a composite of the first, second, and third-place entries, bears a great similarity to Cole's entry. After 1827 Cole maintained a studio at the farm called Cedar Grove , in the town of Catskill, New York . He painted a significant portion of his work in this studio. In 1836, he married Maria Bartow of Catskill, a niece of the owners, and became a year-round resident. Thomas and Maria had five children. Cole's daughter Emily

851-717: The first architectural prize at the New York World's Fair of 1853–1854. He used its most striking feature, two adjacent yet contrasting towers, in a much larger house named Grace Hill, built in Brooklyn between 1853 and 1854. In both Winyah and Grace Hill, broad octagonal towers serve as visual anchors for the taller square towers. Lathers later employed Davis to design four additional "investment houses" on his property which became known as "Lathers's Hill" . The homes included two Gothic cottages and "Tudor Villa" constructed in 1858, and "Pointed Villa" constructed in 1859. In 1890,

888-569: The first recognizably modern architectural office and designed many late Classical buildings, including some of public prominence. In Washington, Davis designed the Executive Department offices and with Robert Mills the first Patent Office building (1834–1836). He also designed the Custom House of New York City (1833–1842). Bridgeport City Hall , constructed in 1853 and 1854, is a later government building Davis designed in

925-1062: The latter, the 1840 original at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York and the 1842 replicas with minor alterations at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Among Cole's other famous works are The Oxbow (1836), The Notch of the White Mountains , Daniel Boone at his cabin at the Great Osage Lake , and Lake with Dead Trees (1825) which is at the Allen Memorial Art Museum . He also painted The Garden of Eden (1828), with lavish detail of Adam and Eve living amid waterfalls, vivid plants, and deer. In 2014, friezes painted by Cole on

962-470: The rhythm of the central portico , all under a unique drum capped by a low saucer dome. With Town's partner James Dakin, he designed the noble colossal Corinthian order of the Greek Revival " Colonnade Row " on New York's Lafayette Street, the very first apartments designed for the prosperous American middle class (1833, half still standing). Two years after its completion, Davis was hired to design

999-579: The walls of his home, which had been decorated over, were discovered. Cole influenced his peers in the art movement later termed the Hudson River School, especially Asher B. Durand and Frederic Edwin Church . Church studied with Cole from 1844 to 1846, where he learned Cole's technique of sketching from nature and later developing an idealized, finished composition; Cole's influence is particularly notable in Church's early paintings. Cole spent

1036-458: The world have undoubtedly wrought many changes in both of us; but the recollection of your friendship... [has] never faded in my mind & I look at those pleasures as 'flowers that never will in other garden grow-'" Thomas Cole died at Catskill on February 11, 1848, of pleurisy . The fourth highest peak in the Catskills is named Thomas Cole Mountain in his honor. Cedar Grove, also known as

1073-584: The years 1829 to 1832 and 1841 to 1842 abroad, mainly in England and Italy. Cole is best known for his work as an American landscape artist. In an 1836 article on "American Scenery", he described his complex relationship with the American landscape in esthetic, emotional, and spiritual terms. He also produced thousands of sketches of varying subject matter. Over 2,500 of these sketches can be seen at The Detroit Institute of Arts ., In 1842, Cole embarked on

1110-653: Was a botanical artist who worked in watercolor and painted porcelain. Cole's sister, Sarah Cole , was also a landscape painter. Additionally, Cole held many friendships with important figures in the art world including Daniel Wadsworth, with whom he shared a close friendship. Proof of this friendship can be seen in the letters that were unearthed in the 1980s by the Trinity College Watkinson Library. Cole emotionally wrote Wadsworth in July 1832: "Years have passed away since I saw you & time &

1147-758: Was an American architect known particularly for his association with the Gothic Revival style. Davis was born in New York City and studied at the American Academy of Fine Arts, the New-York Drawing Association, and from the antique casts of the National Academy of Design . Dropping out of school, he became a lithographer and from 1826 he worked as a draftsman for Josiah R. Brady, a New York architect who

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1184-635: Was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing

1221-499: Was an early exponent of the Gothic Revival style . Brady's Gothic 1824 St. Luke's Episcopal Church is the oldest surviving structure in Rochester, New York . Davis made a first independent career as an architectural illustrator in the 1820s, but his friends, especially painter John Trumbull , convinced him to turn his hand to designing buildings. Picturesque siting, massing and contrasts remained essential to his work, even when he

1258-559: Was at work on the Iowa State Capitol at the same time, and in 1839, the committee responsible for commissioning a design for the Ohio Statehouse asked his advice. The resulting capitol in Columbus, Ohio, often attributed to the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole consulting with Davis and Ithiel Town , has a stark Greek Doric order colonnade across a recessed entrance, flanked by recessed window bays that continue

1295-530: Was building in a Classical style. In 1826, Davis began working in the office of Ithiel Town and Martin E. Thompson, the most prestigious architectural firm of the Greek Revival . In the office Davis had access to the best architectural library in the country, in a congenial atmosphere where he gained a thorough grounding. They designed Sachem's Wood in New Haven, Connecticut, which was built from 1820 to 1830. From 1829, in partnership with Town, Davis formed

1332-633: Was built at Albany, New York , and Gothic Revival style Belmead was built near Powhatan, Virginia , in 1845. Two smaller but well known structures designed by Davis include one built for John Cox Stevens in 1845; Stevens was the first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club and the small Carpenter Gothic building on his property near Hoboken was given to NYYC to be used as its first clubhouse. This building, fondly called "Station 10", still exists and can be found in Newport. Davis built

1369-923: Was determined to be remembered. They are shared by four New York institutions: the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University , the New York Public Library , the New-York Historical Society , and the Metropolitan Museum of Art . A further collection of Davis material has been assembled at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library . Davis is interred in Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey . Thomas Cole Thomas Cole (1 February 1801 – 11 February 1848)

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