Elisha Williams House

The Elisha Williams House, which is also known as the Hawthorne House, a residential building at the Aitkin Avenue in the east of Hudson, New York is in the United States. The brick building was built in the Federal style in 1810 and differs from other built in this style homes in Hudson. Some decorative elements in Victorian style were added later.

Williams, the original builder of the house, was a lawyer and politician who gained nationwide fame as a gifted orator. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Building

The house stands on a gently sloping plot, which is 27 m wide and 36 m long, two houses north of Green Street (New York State Route 23B) on the east side of the road. The building is rectangular. It has two and a half floors and spans five yokes. It is built of brick in the American compound and sitting on a stone foundation. The house is on a slight angle to the plot, so that the front facade is more westward than is the case with the other houses along the street.

The gable roof is covered with shingles made ​​of wood. Two chimneys sit south of the roof ridge at both gable ends, two covered with gable roofs with dormers verge rise on the northern half of the roof. A closed cornice forms the roof eaves.

The windows have lintels of brick and thin stone sills. The environment of the main entrance is made of wood, the door is lined with two simple pilasters. A cornerstone of limestone on the southwest corner is labeled " Hawthorne". On the east side of the building a two-story kitchen wing is pushed out.

Inside the floor plan is geared towards the centrally placed Hall, the main rooms are located on both sides thereof. The original floor plan was not changed, and also a part of the interior, such as the staircase to the newel post from cherry wood and the fireplace in the salon environment, are original. On the second floor there are some more modern additions, such as the bathroom. The basement is not expanded.

Aesthetics

The Elisha Williams House is not the only house in Federal Style in Hudson, but its significance is different from the others that are close usually at the opposite end of the city, the Hudson River out. At Williams ' English house dressing was applied, while the front are brick with the other houses in the Flemish association for the entire building. In addition, sidelights and elliptical skylight that usually frame the main entrance of a house in this style are missing.

These differences could reflect the different regional origin of the builder of the house. The other houses in the Federal-style built by descendants of the founder of the city, mostly whalers, who came from the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Iceland to Hudson. Williams, however, was born in the interior of Connecticut.

History

Born in Pomfret, Connecticut in 1773, Williams was taken to the orphan and to the care of another family. He learned law under a judge in Litchfield in 1793 and approved by the New York bar, when he. In the hamlet of Spencertown in today's Town of Austerlitz

He was a persuasive speaker and his reputation as a lawyer spread rapidly within and outside of New York. After 1795 he married the daughter of his guardian, William 1799, according to Hudson. Two years later he was elected for the first time in the New York State Assembly, where he remained nine of office for the Federalist Party.

While it is likely that Williams had built the house, but the exact timing is unclear. A map of 1801 does not show it, but the plot was then outside the city limits, so it may have been omitted for this reason. A map from 1816, evidently copied from the previous card, indicates the location of a brick building. It assumes, however, that Williams bought the house in 1810 or had built. At that time the front was down to Union Turnpike, today's New York State Route 66

Williams' legal and political career was more positive, although the Federalist Party was conceived after the war of 1812 in a general decline. For the Constituent Assembly in New York in 1821, Williams turned significantly against the extension of suffrage to men without fortune, but he could not prevail. He remained until the end of the 1820s in office, however, began to focus on other projects, such as the founding of the village Waterloo in Seneca County near the Finger Lakes. After he left office, his health became worse. He spent much time in Waterloo, although he was still registered as a resident of Hudson. 1832, a year before his death, Williams sold his property to the local Farmer Richard Atwell.

Atwell sold in 1835 a portion of the property, but continued to live in the house. It was later known as the Hawthorne House, which dates back to the inscription on the cornerstone, its origin is unclear. There is a Hawthorne Valley near Spencertown and it could be that Williams has brought the Stone with him when he moved to the West. Atwells son Richard Aitkin owned the house until 1856. The road, which was built in 1913 next to the house bears his name.

Credentials

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  • Residential buildings in New York
  • Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (New York)
  • Building of the Federal-style
  • Built in the 1810s
  • Columbia County (New York)
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