Captain Moses W. Collyer House

41.551388888889 - 73.970555555556Koordinaten: 41 ° 33 '5 " N, 73 ° 58' 14 " W

The Captain Moses W. Collyer House, also called Driftwood, is a residential house on River Road South in Chelsea in Dutchess County in the U.S. state of New York. It was in 1987 entered in the National Register of Historic Places

The former owner of the house, Moses Collyer, was a river captain on the Hudson River; he lived from 1899 until his death on September 22, 1942 in it. A few years after his entry into the house was Collyer co-author of the book The Sloops of the Hudson, a description of navigation in the time of sailing ships, the most common vehicles were on the river. Thanks to the professional and personal background Collyer, the book is now a comprehensive history of that time and of his ships.

The house itself was built shortly before the beginning of the 20th century and is an eclectic mix late Victorian styles that reflecting Collyer travel experience on the river and in its port locations. The house is a private residence and not open to visitors.

Estate

The house overlooks the Hudson River on the River Road and the tracks of time, which are now used by the Metro-North Hudson Line. The building is a two-story wood frame construction. on a foundation and bricks with Gambreldach. On the south side is a stone inserted in between the bricks of the inscription "MW COLLYER/1899 " bears. The way west-facing front of the house on the ground floor extends over four yokes, upstairs there are three. The on the back side protruding bays have smaller Gambreldächer.

The house is verschindelt. Up to the eaves is horizontal wide boards, these will be replaced by shingles in the area of ​​Gambreldächer. In Gambrelbereich each is a window of which the Palladian window on the west side is the most expensive.

The pillars of the porch are carpentry work - they taper to a point, are lathed and are connected by a simple balustrade. Much of the interior is also original, including the staircase of oak in the entrance hall and the fireplace in the salon environment. Floor and attic have been removed, and served originally as a bedroom and as quarters for the servants.

There are several outbuildings, which are all considered contributing to the historic character of the property. A large shed with gable verschindeltere constant cross gable was built simultaneously with the house and essentially used its design and decoration; the same applies for the nearby outhouse. The garage was built around 1932 and was a wedding gift for the daughter Collyer, what a wooden plaque recalls.

History

Collyer was born in 1850 in Red Hook ( Village ), slightly upriver in Dutchess County. His father had then begun by his under the name of Sing Sing home town in the 1830s, to drive on the Hudson River. He later became captain and ship owner and sailed commercially until his death in 1889 on the river. The uncle Collyer were in shipbuilding and is been also prosperous.

Moses Collyer began in the 1860s as a cabin boy on one of the sloops of his father. He remained until 1877 in the family and then joined a foreign savers to. The following year he was captain and owner of the schooner Henry B. Fidderman. After two years he moved to a steamboat. The Henrietta Collyer was used on the river for the transport of iron and limestone.

The members of the Collyer family lived since 1868 in Chelsea, but nothing about their former dwelling known. 1899, when the railway lines in the New York Central Railroad along the river had navigation in the Hudson Valley largely displaced, Collyer built the house. Detailed records of the construction period, including the photographs, the various stages of construction and delivery notes for building materials illustrate have survived to the present, and provide valuable information on the construction practices in the period around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

A few years later worked Collyer and William Verplanck, the heir of a wealthy family in the region and even shipowners, to the book The Sloops of the Hudson together. This is the history of sailing ships on the river. Collyer detailed memories about the ships and the people he had met over the years, he worked in the written by him second half of the book; it is the most complete record on this issue.

With the exception of the added garage, there has been little change in the house. The steps of the porch were built recently and added a handrail. The porch itself was transformed from an open to a closed one.

Aesthetics

The house represents a mixture of different styles, in a way, as it was the end of the 19th century consistently. The irregular, yet compact main building and the use of different materials are typical of the Queen Anne style that was to jenere time in its last phase. In contrast, the Gambreldach and the Palladian window of the emerging Colonial Revival, the widespread during the early decades of the 20th century. Overall, the style of the house different architectural trends shows outside their original context and demonstrates the integration of Chelsea in the economy.

Even inside the house reflects the changing tastes. The rooms are less great than that of most Victorian homes, suggesting that the house was more determined to live than to entertain people. The open system of the kitchen and other outbuildings indicate a more egalitarian attitude, than would a strictly Victorian house. The contrast between the values ​​of the Queen Anne style and Colonial Revival is also represented by the fireplace in marble environment in contrast to the uncoated oak steps.

Documents

• Residential buildings in New York
• Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (New York)
• Built in the 1890s
• Dutchess County