Kragsyde
Kragsyde | |
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Peabody & Stearns (landscape design)Frederick Law Olmsted | |
Main contractor | Roberts & Hoare |
Kragsyde (1883–85 – 1929) was a
History
Kragsyde was commissioned by George Nixon Black Jr. (1842–1928), heir to a Boston real estate fortune, who had been a
Architectural historian Vincent Scully described Kragsyde as "a masterpiece," and stated that "Peabody & Stearns never again, to my knowledge, created a house of such quality."[2]
Design
Kragsyde's footprint was that of broad "V" – the three-and-a-half-story main house (75 x 45 ft / 22.9 x 13.7 m) facing the Atlantic Ocean, and a secondary wing (20 x 55 ft / 6.1 x 16.8 m) set at a 45-degree angle.
The terraced landscape surrounding the house was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Some of his original walls survive.
Subsequent “Kragsydes”
The original Kragsyde was demolished in 1929. Three subsequent homes have been built upon its foundations:
- "Kragsyde" (1930s): A stuccoed house built by Boston lawyer Pierpont Stackpole.[4]
- "Kragsyde" (1975), a.k.a. "The General's House": Like the original, it featured a wing with porte cochere set at a 45-degree angle to the main house.[5] This was built for Georges Doriot, founder of American Research and Development Corporation, and his wife Edna.
- "Kragsyde" (2014): In 2014, a fourth house was built upon the original's foundations.
Related houses
- "Cragside" (1863), a house in Northumberland, England designed by Richard Norman Shaw, cited as influencing the design of Kragsyde.[6]
- Kragsyde's carriage house (1882), also by Peabody & Stearns, stands at 29 Smith's Point Road.[7]
- * "Kragsyde II" (1982), a house based on the original (but a mirror image) was built on Swan's Island, near Bar Harbor, Maine.[8][9][10] Its location is 44°8′38.88″N 68°23′40.13″W / 44.1441333°N 68.3944806°W
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Scully, pp. 99-100.
- ^ Sheldon, plate 39.
- ^ Mary Grauerholz, "Rooted in History," Northshore Magazine, March 2014, p. 160.
- ^ "Kragsyde".
- ISBN 978-0-89659-662-7. Archived from the originalon 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
- ^ "29 Smiths Point Rd, Manchester, MA 01944 | Zillow".
- ^ Down East: At Home in Maine: Houses Designed to Fit the Land
- ^ "Down East:Kragsyde Reborn". Archived from the original on 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
- ^ "Kragsyde," Old-House Interiors, August/September 2001.
Sources
- The American Architect and Building News, March 7, 1885.[1]
- Annie Robinson, Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages (W.W. Norton, 2010).
- Vincent J. Scully Jr., The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955; reprinted 1971).
- George William Sheldon, Artists Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture with Instances of Country Club-Houses, volume II (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887).