Mandeville House
The Mandeville House is a residential building on the Lower Station Road (Putnam County Route 12) in Garrison , New York , just west of the intersection with New York State Route 9D and New York State Route 403 . It is the oldest still existing house in the village and dates from 1735.
During the American Revolutionary War , the county's namesake, General Israel Putnam, had his headquarters here for a certain time. A later resident was the architect Richard Upjohn , who lived here for the last 25 years of his life. He expanded the house and designed the exterior in the neo-Gothic style that characterizes much of his own work. This remodeling was reversed in the 1920s by a later owner who wanted to bring the appearance of the house closer to its original state. On November 23, 1982, the Mandeville House was entered on the National Register of Historic Places .
Building
The house stands on a wooded lot that is not quite two hectares includes area, directly opposite of similar buildings and structures dating from before the Revolutionary War that the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District include and upslope of Wilson House and the Metro-North - Garrisons Station. It is a one-story house with eight bays with three dormer windows and two chimneys on its saddle roof .
The main facade comprises six bays, with the main entrance in the third bay from the east. It is surrounded by a protective roof and fluted pilasters as well as a small stair terrace with two Dutch-style benches. There are several side wings, including a cross-gabled rear house and the garage attached to the main house with a covered passage.
Some of the interior fittings and wall paneling are original, such as the surrounds of the open chimneys in the main house. Most of the furnishings, however, date from the 1920s and are held in the Colonial Revival.
history
King Wilhelm III. Granted the land on which Mandeville House, built much later, is located in 1697 as a gift to Adolphe Philipse, whose family owned much of what is now Putnam County. Philipse is the first European landowner known by name on the territory of the later United States. Thirty-eight years later, in 1735, Jacob Mandeville leased 160 hectares of land in what is now Garrison, married and presumably built the first part of the house. At that time it consisted of today's dining room and the room above. A kitchen extension was added later, and a few rooms upstairs were built before the United States was founded.
Around the same time, Beverley Robinson , parish chairman of nearby St. Philip's Church in the Highlands, inherited the property. He had married into the family. His property was confiscated by New York State as he collaborated with the British Army as a loyalist during the Revolutionary War . Israel Putnam used the house as their headquarters in 1779. On at least two occasions he was visited here by George Washington , who also stayed the night here.
The state sold the property with the house in 1785 to Joshua Nelson, a son-in-law of the Mandevilles. His family sold it in the 1840s to a woman named Brown, from whom Richard Upjohn bought it in 1852.
The architect at the time was middle-aged and a made man. He was looking for a place to settle after retiring from his architectural practice in New York City . He had designed the new building of the church, as well as several apartment buildings such as Dick's Castle, The Grove and Rock Lawn . He made many changes and renovations to Mandeville House, such as the library and the north wing. He redesigned the front of the house in the neo-Gothic style, which reflected the taste of the time.
Upjohn lived in the house until his death in 1878. His descendants added a few more rooms and stayed here until they sold it to Julian Benjamin, a descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant , in 1922 . He and his wife removed Upjohn's neo-Gothic facade and renewed it in the Colonial Revival . They used Dutch architectural elements wherever possible, for example in the dormers. They also built the extension with the garage.
Benjamin died in 1953 and his wife soon passed the property on to their daughter Margaret Allan Gething. When she died 20 years later, her will stipulated that a trust fund should be set up to open the house and another historical building that she owned in San Antonio as a museum of local history.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Townley McElhiney Sharp: National Register of Historic Places nomination, Mandeville House ( English ) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . May 23, 1982. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
- ↑ Stephanie Strom: Long After Revolutionary War, House Is Still a Battle Scene (English) . In: The New York Times , The New York Times Company , June 16, 2006. Retrieved May 4, 2009.
Coordinates: 41 ° 22 '36 " N , 73 ° 56' 42" W.