Alexander Jackson Davis
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Alexander Jackson Davis was an American architect known particularly for his association with the Gothic Revival style.
Detail of Davis portrait ca. 1855
Federal Hall National Memorial, New York City
Front facade of Lyndhurst, 1838 and 1864
Blandwood Mansion is an example of Italianate design by Davis. 1844 in Greensboro, North Carolina
Lyndhurst (estate)
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Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan
Alexander Jackson Davis
…Additions to Vesper Cliff were built in 1834. The 1840s and 1850s were Davis's two most fruitful decades as 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…
The front facade of Lyndhurst
Architectural detail of Lyndhurst
Outside gallery of the bowling alley building
One of the two parlors of Lyndhurst's bowling alley building used for a sewing school (partial view)