Conservation Work & Houses

putnam & columbia co.

Alfheim Lodge

Alfheim Lodge

Lake Valhalla, Cold Spring, New York

Reconstruction, fitting-out & furnishing of a Rustic Storybook Style Lodge as intended in 1942, but interrupted by World War II. With its buttressed fieldstone and half-log walls, multi-color asphalt shingles, swooping peaked roofs, knotty pine interiors, awnings and small-paned steel and wood windows, Alfheim Lodge is characteristic of the Rustic Storybook Style prevalent in the Lake Valhalla community, an historic community listed in the National & New York State Registers of Historic Places.

Lakeview Lodge

Lakeview Lodge

Lake Valhalla, Cold Spring, New York

In accordance with the Secretary of the Interiors’s Standards for the treatment of historic properties & landscapes, research, conservation of the exterior, interiors and landscape and installation of 1930s furnishings in a 1934 Rustic Storybook Style lodge in the Lake Valhalla community including listing in the National & New York State Registers of Historic Places.

Haldane House

Haldane House

Cold Spring-on-Hudson, New York

Conservation of the exterior and interior of the third quarter of the 19th century Haldane House in Cold Spring-on-Hudson, NY as constructed by James H. Haldane. Haldane was in the iron business with his brother representing the Cold Spring Foundry.

Glenaylie
Pre-Revolutionary War farmhouse on the Hubbard Estate
Pre-Revolutionary War Sherwood House in Yonkers, NY - Another example of a tenant farmhouse on the Philipse Manor

Glenaylie & Pre-Revolutionary War Farmhouse

Cold Spring, New York

Research and on-site investigation to determine the date, original appearance and configuration of Glenaylie, a 1905 Dutch Revival house and a Pre-Revolutionary War farmhouse on the Hubbard Estate.

Glenaylie was built in 1905 by Dr. & Mrs. Campbell.

The Pre-Revolutionary War farmhouse was built by a tenant farmer on land leased from Frederick Philipse the owner of a vast manor stretching form Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River.

Beaver Hall

Beaver Hall

Stuyvesant, New York

Research and on-site investigation to determine the date, original appearance and configuration of a four-over-four Georgian House built on land directly on the Hudson River in 1799 by Henry Van Schaack.