Manitoga
| Manitoga | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
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 Dragon Rock, Manitoga |
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| location | Garrison , New York | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 20 '55 " N , 73 ° 57' 4" W | ||
| Built | 1942 to 1961 | ||
| architect | Russel and Mary Wright David L. Leavitt |
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| Architectural style | Modern | ||
| NRHP number | 96001269 | ||
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| The NRHP added | November 15, 1996 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | February 17, 2006 | ||
Manitoga is the name of the property with the modern architecture and sustainability- built house and studio of industrial designer Russel Wright and his wife Mary in Garrison , New York . The house itself is known as Dragon Rock . It was named by the Wright's daughter, Anne Wright. The property is located at 584 Route 9D. The house and studio are now a museum and can be visited, as can the forest garden. The facility was entered as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in November 1996 . Manitoga has been a National Historic Landmark since February 2006 .
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Manitoga
Russel and Mary Wright acquired in 1942, an approximately 30.35 hectares (75 acres ) plot of land, which was a former quarry which was abandoned in 1910, in Garrison on the east bank of the Hudson River . They called it Manitoga , a word taken from the Algonquin language for "place of great spirit". After the death of his wife Mary in 1952, Wright continued to build the house as planned in the modern style, as a retirement home for himself and for his daughter Anne, with a studio and they turned the garden into a forest garden. The Dragon Rock house with its green roof, made of glass, stone and wood, adapts perfectly to the surroundings. It was built on the edge of the abandoned quarry. The former pit was dammed into a water basin. The house and studio were built right on the edge of this pit. The property was cleared during use as a quarry, so there was no old forest and pits were created in which the stones were extracted. Several streams flow through the area. A stream was diverted from Wright and falls into the stone pool at the house as a waterfall about 9 meters high. The forest garden is criss-crossed by more than four miles of hiking trails with views of the Hudson River. It also consists of ponds, boulders, bay fields and a meadow with wildflowers.
Wright lived in the house with his daughter Anne from the mid-1960s until his death in 1976. In 1975, he and his daughter bequeathed the property with the house to the Nature Conservancy .
Dragon Rock
The house and the studio are connected by a pergola. The building was completed in 1960. The designs came from Wright, the New York architecture firm David Leavitt made the construction drawings under his supervision. Originally planned as a weekend home only, Wright would later spend most of his time there and it was his primary residence for the last few years of his life.
The buildings were built directly into the quarry. Parts of the granite rock form the foundation and floor of the lower rooms. The structure is rectangular and follows the shape of the cliff. The house was built from Weymouth pine . The outer skin is a combination of fixed and sliding panes of glass, plywood sheets and railroad ties. The flat roofs are made of aluminum and gravel, some are planted with Sedum and have deep gutters with visible rafters.
Studio
Wright's preferred location was the studio. It's at the east end of the complex. It's a rectangular building with plenty of storage space below. It is on one level and consists of a study with bedroom and a small guest room, a bathroom and a hallway. Due to the location on the edge of the quarry, the work area is almost at ground level with a view to the north, all rooms have a south-facing view of the quarry and have a stone terrace. The study is furnished with low built-in cupboards made of formica , a desk, a drawing table and a sofa. The floors are made of oak planks. The ceiling is painted dark green and decorated with stucco consisting of branches and clusters of pine needles over a metal panel. Open wooden shelves divide the bedroom from the study. In the study there are white roller blinds in front of the windows, in the bedroom there are wooden blinds. Much of the interior is his own design. In the bathroom there are shelves made of cedar wood, a bathtub and a washbasin, which are built into wooden cabinets. The door to the guest room is covered with birch bark. There are built-in wardrobes in the room.
Residential building
The house is divided into a public and a private area. The public space includes the living room with kitchen, living room, dining room and bathroom, the private area in the western part of the house consists of a small wing with bedrooms for Wright's daughter Anne and a housekeeper, a bathroom and a private terrace.
The bedrooms and the bathroom have floor-to-ceiling windows with a view of the quarry. The house is entered through a door at the back and a narrow hallway that leads to the core area. From there a staircase leads to the living area and cellar as well as a long hallway to the sleeping area. The floor in the basement is made of the granite of the rock on which the house is located. The largest room in this part of the house is Anne Wright's bedroom. The floors of the bedrooms are made of wooden parquet, the sliding doors of the cupboards in these rooms are made of plastic with integrated plant materials. The walls in Anne's bedroom are covered with pink metal foil and the walls in the housekeeper's room with cotton with lavender woven into it. Both rooms have built-in furniture, and the back of a built-in sofa in Anne's room could be converted into a bunk bed. The bathroom has a bathtub, next to it there are floor-to-ceiling windows that can be opened, giving the impression of being outdoors. The water flows into the tub via a small stone waterfall. The tub and floors are made of Murano glass tiles in five shades of blue with blue mortar. One panel of the room has a collection of butterflies of various colors and sizes, while another has leaves and flowers.
The largest area of the house is taken up by the living space. The interiors are distributed over five levels. The house is entered from the rear. A staircase leads to a large open room with a wide view. From top to bottom there is a cave that serves as a multifunctional and utility room, a bathroom, a living area on two levels, a dining room and a kitchen. The granite rock serves as a central structural element and granite was built into the fireplace, the floors, the stairs and outside the house on the terrace. The south wall consists almost entirely of glass and has sliding doors to the terrace and the stairs to the studio and the lake. An important design element of the dining area is the solid cedar , which serves as the building's primary vertical support pillar. A staircase made of concrete and granite blocks connects the dining room with the living room and the kitchen area.
Forest garden
The forest garden essentially consists of the quarry, the hiking trails that run through the forest garden starting from the house and quarry, the watercourses, special "garden rooms" and the Hudson River, which flows along the western border. The primary axis of the forest garden is the creek that Wright diverted to fill the quarry basin at the house and that forms the waterfall that tumbles into the quarry basin. The effect of the forest garden is natural, but it was completely laid out. Clearings, plantings, leveling and other changes were made to the existing terrain. When Wright bought the site, it was overgrown with brambles and other vegetation. He also had to clean it of the remains of industrial use. He diverted a stream, dammed the pool and had a large granite block placed in the pool as an artificial island.
Wright planted native plants like grapevines and lilies . He built bridges over the brooks or laid stepping stones, he left some traces of the previous use of the property, markings of blasts or cable hooks in a rock were preserved. He planted the hemlock to create effects in terms of color and structure. The wood of the hemlock was also used to accentuate the building of the house. He also created landscapes with dominant collections of certain plants. Hemlock , mountain laurel and ferns dominate the undergrowth, natural elements were arranged by it to create appropriate scenes.
The quarry was also planted with lilies, laurel, birch and moss. Two garden rooms near the quarry were created, they offer a direct view of the house and studio. Other garden rooms are the Quadruple Oaks and the Four Corners. All the main paths meet at the Four Corners. In the garden rooms, wildflowers grow like the lady's slipper and they are shaped by shapes and smells, there are places where the wild thyme, sown in large quantities, grows in the scree fields. But there are also rooms that are characterized by laurel and enclosed by hemlock.
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Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION Manitoga. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012 ; accessed on March 13, 2016 .
- ^ Manitoga on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 9, 2019.
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New York. National Park Service , accessed November 9, 2019.
- ↑ a b The Wright House in The Interiours by Jennifer Krichels , accessed March 13, 2016.
- ↑ Russel Wright, Designer & Creator of MANITOGA. In: upstatediary.com. Upstate Diary, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- ^ Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center. In: artistshomes.org. Retrieved March 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Tammy La Gorce: New Vigor at a Designer's Wooded Hideaway . In: The New York Times . June 20, 2015, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com ).