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New York Architecture
Images- Park Slope, Brooklyn Litchfield House Brooklyn Headquarters, N.YC. Department of Parks and Recreation Landmark |
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architect |
Alexander Jackson Davis. Annex, 1913 Helmle, Huberty. Stucco restoration, 1990s. Hirsch/Danois. |
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location |
Prospect Park W. bet. 4th and 5th Sts. E side. |
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date |
1854-1857 |
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style |
Italianate |
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type |
House |
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construction |
brick (covered originally with ashlar stucco) |
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Brooklyn
Headquarters, N.YC. Department of Parks and Recreation / originally Edwin
Clarke and Grace Hill Litchfield House, Grace Hill, also known as
Litchfield Villa, Prospect Park W. bet. 4th and 5th Sts. E side.
1854-1857. Alexander Jackson Davis. Annex, 1913 Helmle & Huberty.
Stucco restoration, 1990s. Hirsch/Danois. This
is the villa of Edwin C. Litchfield, a lawyer whose fortune was made in
midwestern railroad development. In the 1850s he acquired a square mile of
virtually vacant land extending from 1st through 9th Streets, and from the
Gowanus Canal to the projected line of 10th Avenue, just east of his
completed mansion, a territory that includes a major portion of today’s
Park Slope. The
mansion is the best surviving example of Davis’s Italianate style (he
also created Greek Revival temples and Gothic castles). More than 90 years
of service as a public office have eroded much of its original richness:
the original exterior stucco, simulating cut stone, had been stripped off,
exposing common brick behind: now being restored. Note the corncob
capitals on the glorious porch colonnades, an Americanization of things
Roman-Corinthian or Corn-inthian? The bay window facing west contains a
lush frieze of swags and goddesses. Go
in, look around, ye fellow citizen and part owner. |
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| with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York", | |