Cedarmere-Clayton Estates
40.811111111111 - 73.645833333333Koordinaten: 40 ° 48 ' 40 "N, 73 ° 38' 45 " W
Cedarmere - Clayton Estates is a historic district consisting of two residences in Roslyn Harbor, New York in the United States, which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Cedarmere, the smaller of the two properties, was William Cullen Bryant and is located on the west side of Bryant Avenue above Hempstead Harbor; Today it houses a publicly accessible historic house. Clayton, the larger residence, is today home to the Nassau County Museum of Art Both properties, which have been designed and redesigned by several well-known architects, illustrate the development of the residences on the north shore of Long Iceland over a period of almost a century.
Bryant originally had almost the entire land on which are the two houses. Fifteen years after the death of Bryant's 1893 Lloyd Bryce bought the largely undeveloped rear of the property and instructed Ogden Codman, Jr. to build a country seat on it. 1919 bought by the dying Henry Clay Frick, the property of his son Childs, who until his death in 1965, lived with his family to renovate and extend it. Four years later, it was left to the County for use as a museum.
Location
Cedarmere
Cedarmere is located behind a high stone wall on a four -acre estate on the Bryant Avenue with two small ponds and a garden landscape, the Frederick Law Olmsted has created. The main house consists of a three yokes exciting two and a half storey main building and two wings. The eastern of the two wing has two floors and the northern, smaller one has only one floor. They are each covered with a Gambreldach of slate, the dormers have gabled roofs. The windows vary in the course of the facade. The facade of the house is plastered, with the exception of the masonry of stone, which forms the foundation of the house. A glass conservatory and green metal protrudes from the front. A veranda surrounds the house with the exception of the north side on all other pages.
An entrance pavilion stands on the south side out onto the porch from which you can look out over the larger pond with the stone bridge. The roof of the pavilion is a balcony railing. The portal is heavily ornamented with classical elements and surrounded by pilasters, sidelights, main cornice and a fighter leaded windows.
On the other side of the pond there is a neo-Gothic building, which is called the mill, although it never found such use. It is used purely for decorative purposes, and is used as a storage room. The ground floor is built of brick, the floor above it has a ground cover formwork made of wood. The cross gable roof is covered with slate and with ornate verges. It is surmounted by a masonry brick chimney. The windows have sheets of different shapes, and other decorative items.
Additional outbuildings include a small greenhouse on the south side of the garden and two newer garages that are north of the house in the distance. The latter are the only buildings on the property that are not considered as contributing.
Clayton
The land on which Clayton is located, is on the opposite side of Bryant Avenue, but the main access is done from Northern Boulevard (New York State Route 25A). After passing a classical doorman building with a gable roof of brick, the way to today's museum through a part of the 165 acres ( about 66 hectares) of landscaped garden, which forms the center of Roslyn Harbor. The main house sits on a hill and is surrounded by plantings and a modern parking. The building is built in the Georgian style brick and stone. On the gable roof of copper sitting dormers, which themselves have a gable roof. The eaves runs along a cornice with Mutuli that sits above the main stone entablature.
The main building has two floors with basement and gable spans nine yokes. At both ends of symmetrical pavilions with two yokes are present, which are emphasized by quoins. At the front is higher than five yokes of the house across an open porch with Ionic columns and a flat roof, main entablature and balustrade about it. The main entrance is a double door with a semicircular fighter. On the east façade allows for a series of French doors with arched access to the garden; Upstairs there is a balcony with a balustrade. Two -storey arcaded wings leading off from it. The interior of the residence has largely original wood and stucco.
Near the main house is a landscaped by Marian Coffin Garden with symmetrical plantings, grouped around a central fountain. There are the remains of a private zoo - especially an old animal enclosure - available. A narrow road leads to Jerusha Dewey Cottage, which Bryant had built for one of his friends initially and, after renovation by the Fricks, a guest house was later used as a. Therefore, it is partly built of brick and has a partially wooden facade with ground cover formwork. The roof is slated and the windows have different styles.
As in the case of Cedarmere also two modern buildings were built to facilitate the current use of the property as an art museum and sculpture garden. These two are the only buildings on the site which are not considered as contributing.
History
The property, which eventually became Cedarmere, was in use since the early days of the settlement of Long Island by colonists in the 17th century. The earliest known today for residential house on the property was built in 1787 by the Quaker farmer acting as Richard Kirk. Bryant bought in 1843 a small house that had been built by a Joseph Moulton to create for yourself a refuge from his work as editor of the New York Evening Post, where he could enjoy nature and writing poetry. He enlarged the land and expanded his house in the 1850s and 1860s to the present building. He followed the then popular guiding principles of Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux; He probably designed the mill. These were a small neo-Gothic cottages that were designed in the mood of the Picturesque and were in harmony with their environment. In Cedarmere, as he named the property later, he received not only Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted whose occasional employees, but also other famous cultural figures of the time, such as the painter Thomas Cole, the writer James Fenimore Cooper and the actor Edwin Booth.
He sold the property in 1875 to his daughter Julia, however, reserved the right to live life and lived so until his death in 1878 in the house. Julia sold it in 1891 to her nephew, Harold Godwin, in 1891, who sold the undeveloped part of the property to the former congressman and an industrial heritage assets Lloyd Bryce. This was built as the later Clayton called home. The upper floors of Cedarmere 1903 were substantially damaged by fire.
Bryce commissioned a young architect named Codman, who designed a number of houses along the coast in the northeastern United States to plan the main house and began the design of the gardens in the northwest corner of the property. The Fricks, which the house was later hired the architect Charles Allom to rebuild the house after they moved in 1919 to their needs. They gave the property the name Clayton. The design Codmans remained largely unchanged; the major changes Allom were to replace the original loggia at the entrance with the porch and inside the creation of a large entrance hall, with which the Fricks wanted to give the impression of an English country house. This intention was striving among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. Here added Guy Lowell designed the gatehouse and the main garden was built a decade later.
Four years after the death of Frick's heirs sold the estate in 1969 to the Nassau County for use as an art museum. 1989 transferred the Countyverwaltung the control of the property to a private foundation. The Godwin family lived in Cedarmere until 1975 the county for use as presented it.
Cedarmere and Clayton in the presence
Both houses and the land on which they stand, are open to the public. The land is on the Cedarmere can be visited free of charge, the house itself is open by appointment and weekends. Visitors Claytons have to pay entrance fee and a parking fee; The museum is open year round except on public holidays and Mondays.