Showing posts with label Guy Lowell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guy Lowell. Show all posts
Monday, September 17, 2012
'Tryon Hall'
'Tryon Hall', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1903 along Fort Tryon Park in New York City pictured in 1914 shortly after the completion of Billings' $250,000 driveway designed by Buchman & Fox. Click HERE for more on 'Tryon Hall' and HERE for a 1913 NYTimes article on the driveway. Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.
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Guy Lowell,
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
'Tryon Hall'
'Tryon Hall', the Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1903 at the lower end of Fort Tryon Park along the Hudson River in New York City. The lodge was expanded by Lowell into a full time residence in 1907. Billings sold the estate in 1916 to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and moved to his new country estate 'Farnsworth', also designed by Guy Lowell, in Oyster Bay, Long Island (as well as keeping an apartment at 820 Fifth Avenue). Rockefeller wanted to demolish the house and donate the land to the city for use as a park but was ultimately rejected. The house would eventually burn to the ground in 1926 and Fort Tryon Park was completed in 1935 after the city finally accepted Rockefeller's donation. Click HERE for a Christopher Gray article on 'Tryon Hall'. Click HERE to see the former entrance to the estate on bing.
Photos from the Museum of the City of New York.
Photos from the Museum of the City of New York.
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Guy Lowell,
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New York City
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Bayard Thayer Estate
The Bayard Thayer estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1901 in Lancaster, Massachusetts with landscaping by Herbert W.C. Browne. Thayer was the grandson of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Thayer, Unitarian minister of the First Church of Christ in Lancaster and son of Nathaniel Thayer, banker. His obituary called him simply a "millionaire sportsman". Today the house operates as the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center. Click HERE to see the Thayer estate on google earth and HERE on bing.
Photos from Architectural Review, 1906.
Photos from Architectural Review, 1906.
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Guy Lowell,
House,
Massachusetts
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
'Allanbank'
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Guy Lowell,
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Massachusetts
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