Alexander Jackson Davis - the New Rochelle Connection
Lyndhurst mansion, in Tarrytown, was profiled in the first episode of the new PBS series program, "10 Homes That Changed America," this past Tuesday evening. If you had the good fortune to tune in, you learned that William Paulding, a former mayor of New York City, hired architect Alexander Jackson Davis to design a Hudson River mansion that would be set apart from all others. And Davis delivered! Although a shocking and dramatic departure from the Colonial Revival styles popular in the period, the design of the 1838 Lyndhurst would inspire American Gothic mansions and cottages for decades to follow…including at least five in New Rochelle.
Alexander Jackson Davis designed at least three New Rochelle houses for Colonel Richard Lathers, who maintained a long friendship with the renowned architect. One of the houses would become the home of the famous artist Frederic Remington. To learn about these houses, read the below article written by City Historian Barbara Davis for The Preserver, a former publication of the New Rochelle Historical and Landmarks Review Board.
Two other Davis-designed houses are still standing, near New Rochelle’s Sound shores. You can learn all about them in next week’s Thursday Throwback!
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