Conservation Work & Houses
putnam & columbia co.
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
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
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
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
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.