Scribner House (Cornwall, New York)

The Scribner House is a residential building on Roe Avenue in Cornwall, New York, United States. It was founded in 1910 as the main house on the summer home of the New York publisher Charles Scribner II, one of Charles Scribner 's Sons. The architecture combines interior decor with a shingled Colonial Revival facade in the Queen Anne style, it also absorbs some element of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 1996.

Building

The house is located in the front part of a ten- acre ( about four acres ) of grounds in a residential area at the Roe Avenue, just outside of Cornwall -on-Hudson. Large evergreen trees protect the house from the eyes of the public and provide shade.

It is a two and a half storey built in timber frame construction house with a mansard roof that is covered with wooden shingles. The facade is clad in a similar manner. A large central fireplace is complemented by a small brick fireplace in the northeast corner. Two pavilions stand out from the main building; between is a member fitted gable roof with dormers. On the south side is a eineinhalbstöckiger wing with mansard roof, a two-story wing with a gable roof adjoins the east side, in the north, a one-story porch is fitted with a hipped roof and the east wing there is a single-storey extension, which extends partly around its southern and eastern side.

The main entrance on the west side is a centrally located double wooden door that is recessed into the facade and are surrounded by molded wood slats and side light windows. Above is a skylight in patterned glass. For entrance and the veranda with the wooden balustrade leading stone steps. The flat roof of the porch is supported by two Doric columns.

Inside the largest part of the original equipment is obtained. The interior woodwork with architraves and paneling of the walls and ceiling of oak. The main staircase has intricate newel post that have at the base of a wreath and a doric balustrade. The mantels are made ​​of brick, added a wood stove and the original lighting.

Aesthetics

A generous interpretation of the main house and the location on a large plot, as well as the existing views of the Hudson River and the nearby Highlands are the outstanding feature of country seats as the Scribner was originally. Through its detailed landscaping, it differs from the cottages in Cornwall from an earlier period.

The architecture combines an interior in the Colonial Revival with a shingled exterior facade in the Queen Anne style. The latter is also in properties to those protruding dormer windows, the window strips and the recessed entrance.

Outside the influence of the contemporary period of the Arts and Crafts Movement is recognizable. Houses from that period, many of which were in the Adirondack and Catskill Park was built at the other sites in New York at the beginning of the 20th century, focused on the relationship between the people of her house to the environment, especially to nature. When Scribner House, these are the large-format window areas and open spaces in the interior, which served to integrate interior and exterior as well as the use of natural motifs such as leaves and flowers at the Verschmückung of wood trim and stained glass in the house.

Most of the interior reflects the style of the Colonial Revival, who was at the time of construction of the house is also up to date. Most notable are the wooden features such as the stairs, the stairs, the wall paneling and open fireplaces in the corners.

History

The Scribners built the house in 1910, at a time when Cornwall was the favorite summer destination yet, to which it had developed in the 19th century. Originally the house was part of a much larger park-like property, which was located outside of Cornwall -on-Hudson in the neighborhood of most other country seats. The house was designed by Mead and Taft, a local architectural firm that has designed in Cornwall a number of other summer houses, including the Amelia Barr House.

In the 1950s, the original large balcony on the second floor has been partially removed so that only the remaining section remained on the porch on the ground floor. This transformation is the only significant change of the house since its construction. The heirs of the Scribner's sold the estate in the 1960s and the land was then divided piecemeal until only today about ten acres remained.