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Eustatia

New York, US

Eustatia

Eustatia (Greek for "good place to stay") is a brick house overlooking the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, United States. Located on Monell Place in the northwestern corner of the city, it is a rare survival in Beacon of a cottage in the High Victorian Gothic style. It was built in 1867 to designs

by Frederick Clarke Withers for his friend John J. Monell (after whom today's street is named), a New York state judge. Monell had recently married Caroline DeWindt Downing, widow of his friend the influential Newburgh architect Andrew Jackson Downing, with whom Withers had worked. They built the house on property deeded to them by her father, John Peter DeWindt, near her family's own cottage. As per Withers's specifications, the house is built of red Hudson River brick and light Milwaukee brick for the polychromy. This cream-colored brick he also called for in the construction of his Arcade Building (1871) for Riverside, Illinois, a suburb under development by his once partner Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. Eustatia was notably produced from the office of Vaux, Withers, & Co., the second architectural partnership Withers formed with Vaux; the latter's involvement is unclear. Withers...

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