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11-505: The Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House is a Neo-Georgian townhouse at 47 and 49 E. 65th St. on the Upper East Side of New York City , designed by Charles A. Platt for Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt in 1907. It originally held "two mirror-image residences with a single facade and entrance. Each first floor had its own front reception room with a welcoming fireplace. Rear parlors could be combined through sliding doors." The house

22-649: A consultant, Harris participated in the design and construction of more than 100 halls, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , Minnesota Orchestra Hall , Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera House , Abravanel Hall , Benaroya Hall and Conrad Prebys Concert Hall in University of California, San Diego . Harris was a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America . He served on

33-499: A non-profit consortium was organized to purchase the house on behalf of Hunter College. The house was closed in 1992 and reopened in 2010 after an $ 18 million renovation. Leslie E. Robertson Associates were the structural engineers on this renovation. The building is currently used by Hunter College as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College or, simply, Roosevelt House . It

44-559: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Colonial Revival architecture The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 , which reawakened Americans to the architectural traditions of their colonial past. Fairly small numbers of Colonial Revival homes were built c.  1880 –1910, a period when Queen Anne-style architecture

55-546: Is not one single combination of elements that defines the style. However, some commonly found characteristics of Colonial Revival buildings include: Cyril M. Harris 's American Architecture: An Illustrated Book noted that "Colonial Revival houses are usually the result of a rather free interpretation of their prototypes; they tend to be larger, may differ significantly from the houses they seek to emulate, and often exaggerate architectural details." Cyril M. Harris Cyril Manton Harris (June 20, 1917 – January 4, 2011)

66-696: The Executive Council (1954–1957), was vice president (1960–1961) and president (1964–1965) of the society, and was an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1959–1971). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , National Academy of Engineering , American Philosophical Society and several other professional societies and advisory boards. Harris served as president (1993) and chairman of

77-718: The architectural movement, "Colonial Revival" also refers to historic preservation , landscape architecture and garden design, and decorative arts movements that emulate or draw inspiration from colonial forms. While the dominant influences in Colonial Revival style are Georgian and Federal architecture , Colonial Revival homes also draw, to a lesser extent, from the Dutch Colonial style and post-medieval English styles. Colonial Revival homes are often eclectic in style, combining aspects from several of these previous styles. Since Colonial Revival architecture pulls structural and decorative elements from other styles, there

88-821: Was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University . He received his B.S. in mathematics and his M.S. in physics from UCLA , and his Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he specialized in acoustics . He co-authored with Vern Oliver Knudsen the book Acoustical Designing in Architecture , and edited several others, including Handbook of Noise Control , Shock and Vibration Handbook , Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture , Dictionary of Architecture and Construction and American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia . These books are recognized as authoritative references in their field. As

99-493: Was dominant in the United States. From 1910–1930, the Colonial Revival movement was ascendant, with about 40% of U.S. homes built in the Colonial Revival style. In the immediate post-war period ( c.  1950s –early 1960s), Colonial Revival homes continued to be constructed, but in simplified form. In the present-day, many New Traditional homes draw from Colonial Revival styles. Although associated with

110-467: Was given to the Roosevelts by Franklin's mother as a wedding gift for them. The house was used by Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt from its completion in 1908 to her death in 1941, and intermittently by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt from construction to their sale of the house to Hunter College in 1943. After his mother's death in 1941, President Roosevelt and his wife placed the house up for sale and

121-554: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [REDACTED] Media related to Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House at Wikimedia Commons This article about a historic property or district in Manhattan , New York City , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Manhattan

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