Armor-Stiner House
The Armor-Stiner House , also known as the Carmer Octagon House , is a Victorian-style house located at 45 West Clinton Avenue in Irvington , Westchester County , New York . It is considered to be the world's only octagonal residential building with a dome. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 .
The house was built from 1859 to 1860 on behalf of financier Paul J. Armor and is based on ideas from Orson Fowler . The actual architect of the house is unknown. The dome was added when the house was expanded by tea importer Joseph Stiner between 1872 and 1876. The Armor-Stiner House is considered to be one of the most lavish octagon houses of the time.
The historian Carl Carmer later lived here , and according to his statement it is haunted here. In 1976 the house briefly belonged to the National Trust for Historic Preservation , which prevented it from being demolished. He then sold it to the architect Joseph Pell Lombardi, who specializes in the reconstruction of historical buildings and then reconstructed the house, its interior, the property and the outbuildings.
The house is still a private residence today. It is on the south side of West Clinton Avenue on the crest of a hill that overlooks the Hudson River further west. The structure is about 500 m from the river bank and about 40 m higher, in line with Fowler's ideas. The Croton Aqueduct , another National Historic Landmark, is adjacent to the east.
An exterior shot of the house was used in the film Across the Universe .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New York. National Park Service , accessed August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Thomas M. Slade: National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Armor-Stiner House ( English , PDF, 425 KB ; 404 kB) National Park Service. August 19, 1979. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
- ↑ Thomas M. Slade: Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 1970-1975 ( English , PDF, 1.08 MB ; 2.4 MB) National Park Service. August 19, 1979. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
- ↑ Info on octagon.bobanna.com
- ↑ Picture ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on octagon.bobanna.com
- ↑ Dave's Victorian House Site - Victorian House School ( Memento of March 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Irvington Historical Society, Octagon House ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Arthur G. Adams, The Hudson River Guidebook (1996) ISBN 0-8232-1202-5 .
- ↑ Armor-Stiner Octagon House ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. HABS
- ↑ Across the Universe (2007)
Web links
- Four drawings (1975), 35 aerial photographs, exterior and interior views (black and white) (1974, 1975, 1978); thirteen page report and four color aerial photographs of the Historic American Buildings Survey in the collection of the Library of Congress .
- Living Places — The Armor-Stiner House . Gombach Group.
- The Armor-Stiner (Octagon) House, Irvington-On-Hudson, New York . Joseph Pell Lombardi. (English) With floor plans.
- Irvington Historical Society: Octagon House (English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 1 ′ 50.9 ″ N , 73 ° 52 ′ 16 ″ W.