'
Mulberry Corner', the residence of
Lydig Hoyt, originally built c. 1735 and expanded for Hoyt by
Delano & Aldrich c. 1922 in
Woodbury. Hoyt was an attorney with the firm of
Stewart & Schearer and later practiced with his cousin Francis Appleton. He was a 1906 graduate of Yale where he played football and was for a short while deputy police commissioner under
Arthur Woods in NYC. Hoyt died in 1959 at his grandfather's home
'The Point', designed by
Calvert Vaux c. 1855 in Staatsburg, NY (which is now owned by the State of NY). '
Mulberry Corner' was demolished sometime between 1953 and 1980 to be replaced by a shopping plaza but click
HERE to see where it stood on google earth.
Pictures from
American Architect & Architecture.
'Mulberry Corner', the residence of Lydig Hoyt, originally built c. 1735 and expanded for Hoyt by Delano & Aldrich c. 1922 in Woodbury. Hoyt was an attorney with the firm of Stewart & Schearer and later practiced with his cousin Francis Appleton. He was a 1906 graduate of Yale where he played football and was for a short while deputy police commissioner under Arthur Woods in NYC. Hoyt died in 1959 at his grandfather's home 'The Point', designed by Calvert Vaux c. 1855 in Staatsburg, NY (which is now owned by the State of NY). 'Mulberry Corner' was demolished sometime between 1953 and 1980 to be replaced by a shopping plaza but click HERE to see where it stood on google earth.
Pictures from American Architect & Architecture.
6 comments:
Tasteful, charming, understated. Hoyt's mother was one of the flamboyant beauties of her era. One could build a case that this is a reaction to the large life his mother led?
My bad. Was thinking entirely of someone else. Ignore above.
DED- you have me intrigued. of whom were you thinking?
Security word of the day: onepaw- nickname for an elderly, infirm letcher
Oh Magnus, my security word the other day was flatab, a nasty reminder that I've been ignoring the gym lately.
I was thinking of Rita Lydig...it was too early in the morning.
Re Mrs. Lydig Hoyt:
A peak in the NYT archives is, as always, immensely entertaining.
(The problem is that it's the Times -- and not the Herald-Tribune or its antecedents.)
if i was a tourist and came to maine to see this place, i'd say "isn't that quaint?"
ded - is that a jonathan fisher murak? (kidding!)
security word def - "trepal" - relationship of tarzan to jane
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