Nut Grove
Nut Grove | |
 North elevation and east profile, 2011 | |
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| Location | Albany, NY |
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| Coordinates | 42°38′0″N 73°46′6″W / 42.63333°N 73.76833°W |
| Area | 8 acres (3.2 ha) |
| Built | 1845[2] |
| Architect | Alexander Jackson Davis |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001215[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 30, 1974 |
Nut Grove, also known as the William Walsh House, is a historic house located on McCarty Avenue in Albany, New York, United States. It is a brick building originally designed in the Greek Revival architectural style by architect Alexander Jackson Davis in the mid-19th century. In 1974 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
It is Davis's only house in that style in the
Building
The building as it is today stands at the rear of the Addictions Care Center of Albany's (ACCA) 8-acre (3.2 ha) property on the south side of McCarty just east of Bowne Street, near the southern boundary of the city. To its west and northwest are ACCA's other two, more modern buildings, and a parking lot. A
The building itself is a two-story structure of yellow brick, five
Along the east
History
When the house was built, in 1845, it was south of Albany's city limits, in the
Those connections led them to friends of Davis, who had built many structures in the Hudson Valley, notably the 1839
For the Walshes, Davis built a Grecian country house overlooking the
Davis designed several similar Grecian country houses after 1835. A simplified version, with some Italianate features, appears in The Architecture of Country Houses, Andrew Jackson Downing's influential 1850 pattern book. Nut Grove is the only one known to survive.[2]
The Walshes lived at Nut Grove until William died in 1863. His wife soon remarried to Robert Donaldson, who owned two other Davis houses downriver in Barrytown, one of which she moved into with him. Her nephew, Dudley Walsh, took over Nut Grove.[2]
In the 1870s, Walsh sold it to Thomas McCarty, an
The house was purchased in 1902 by Eleanor Spensley, who had founded the Hospital for Incurables in
In that form, the Hospital for Incurables continued operating in the house until 1973. After it was closed the two rear wings were demolished.
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cornelia E. Brooke (January 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Nut Grove". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-10-13. See also: "Accompanying three photos".
- ^ a b "Reilly House for Men". Addictions Care Center of Albany, Inc. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
- ^ "Nutgrove Garden Apartments". Albany Housing Authority. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
External links
Media related to Nut Grove at Wikimedia Commons
