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Maple Lawn

Index Maple Lawn

Maple Lawn, also known as the Walter Vail House, is a residence in Balmville, New York, United States built in the Gothic Revival architectural style's Picturesque mode. [1]

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  1. 63 relations: American Civil War, Andrew Jackson Downing, Architectural style, Balcony, Balmville, New York, Baluster, Bargeboard, Bay window, Beech, Brick, Calvert Vaux, Carriage house, Catalpa, Chamfer, Chimney, Contributing property, Corbel, Dining room, Dormer, English Americans, Façade, Federal architecture, Fireplace, Fireplace mantel, Fluting (architecture), Foundation (engineering), Frederick Clarke Withers, Frieze, Gable, Garage (residential), Gothic Revival architecture, Greek Revival architecture, Hudson River, Industrialisation, Juglans nigra, Land lot, Latticework, Mansard roof, Maple, Marble, Molding (decorative), Monochrome, Montgomery–Grand–Liberty Streets Historic District, National Register of Historic Places, New York (state), New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Newburgh (town), New York, Newburgh, New York, Ornament (art), Outhouse, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. Frederick Clarke Withers buildings

American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Andrew Jackson Downing

Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, writer, prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of ''The Horticulturist'' magazine (1846–1852).

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Architectural style

An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, form, size, structural design, and regional character.

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Balcony

A balcony (from balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.

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Balmville, New York

Balmville is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.

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Bargeboard

A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof.

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Bay window

A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Brick

A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux FAIA (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer.

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Carriage house

A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack.

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Catalpa

Catalpa, commonly also called catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.

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Chamfer

A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.

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Chimney

A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas.

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Contributing property

In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district significant.

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Corbel

In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket.

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Dining room

A dining room is a room for consuming food.

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Dormer

A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.

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English Americans

English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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Federal architecture

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries.

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Fireplace

A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire.

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Fireplace mantel

The fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a fire grate to catch the smoke.

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Fluting (architecture)

Fluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface.

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Foundation (engineering)

In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.

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Frederick Clarke Withers

Frederick Clarke Withers (4 February 1828 – 7 January 1901) was an English architect in America, especially renowned for his Gothic Revival ecclesiastical designs.

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Frieze

In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Garage (residential)

A residential garage is a walled, roofed structure with a door for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage").

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Greek Revival architecture

Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.

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Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra, the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to North America.

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Land lot

In real estate, a Land lot or plot of land is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s).

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Latticework

Latticework is an openwork framework consisting of a criss-crossed pattern of strips of building material, typically wood or metal.

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Mansard roof

A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Molding (decorative)

Moulding (British English), or molding (American English), also coving (in United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration.

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Monochrome

A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color).

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Montgomery–Grand–Liberty Streets Historic District

The Montgomery–Grand–Liberty Streets historic district was the first of two to be designated in the city of Newburgh, New York, United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) is a state agency within the New York State Executive Department charged with the operation of state parks and historic sites within the U.S. state of New York.

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Newburgh (town), New York

Newburgh is a town in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Newburgh, New York

Newburgh is a city in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Ornament (art)

In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.

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Outhouse

An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet.

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Parlour

A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space.

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Pavilion

In architecture, pavilion has several meanings;.

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Pilaster

In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.

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Porch

A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building.

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Quatrefoil

A quatrefoil (anciently caterfoil) is a decorative element consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping circles of the same diameter.

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Roof pitch

Roof pitch is the steepness of a roof expressed as a ratio of inch(es) rise per horizontal foot (or their metric equivalent), or as the angle in degrees its surface deviates from the horizontal.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Unincorporated area

An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Villa

A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house.

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Window

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.

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See also

Frederick Clarke Withers buildings

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Lawn

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