Famous Architects

Kykuit

At Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate, the classical revival mansion was built from 1907 to 1913, and represents the work of architects Chester Holmes Aldrich (1871-1940) and William Adams Delano (1874-1960), with additions by William Welles Bosworth (1869-1966). Bosworth also designed the splendid and eclectic Beaux Arts gardens at Kykuit.

Sunnyside

Washington Irving acquired a small 18th-century cottage and radically improved it with the help of friends. He intended Sunnyside to resemble Dutch houses of the 17th and 18th centuries. Sunnyside is a major landmark of the romantic period in American architecture. Because of its conscious references to the architecture of the New Netherland colony, Sunnyside is interpreted by some historians as one of America's first colonial revival houses.

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Montgomery Place

Originally built as a federal-style house in 1805 for Janet Livingston Montgomery; the house was redesigned by the 19th-century architect, Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892), in the classical revival style in two phases, the first beginning in 1842 and the second in the early 1860s. He added porches, wings, balustrades and other details. Davis also designed a number of outbuildings; the coach house, farmhouse, and a ¨Swiss¨ style cottage for estate workers.

Lyndhurst

Lyndhurst was also designed by A.J. Davis, and is America's finest gothic revival house. Overlooking the widest portion of the Hudson River, Lyndhurst was originally designed by Davis as a small country villa in 1838, then, again under Davis ' direction, greatly expanded starting in 1864. Lyndhurst and Montgomery Place are parallel landmarks, each built in two stages by the same architect, one in the classical style and the other in the gothic.

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