Ernest Flagg constructed three remarkable small stone houses on the grounds of Stone Court, his country estate. Now known as the Todt Hill Cottages, they expressed his aesthetic theories, and Flagg considered them to be of no less importance than his Singer Tower, which was the world’s tallest building when it was completed in 1901. […]
Ernest Flagg constructed three remarkable small stone houses on the grounds of Stone Court, his country estate. Now known as the Todt Hill Cottages, they expressed his aesthetic theories, and Flagg considered them to be of no less importance than his Singer Tower, which was the world’s tallest building when it was completed in 1901. […]
Stone Court, the estate of the noted American architect Ernest Flagg, is located on the crest of Todt Hill, part of the central ridge of serpentine rock which bisects the northern half of Staten Island and offers from its crest splendid view of the Atlantic Ocean. Together with the nearby stone cottages he built on […]
The Physician-in-Chief’s residence of Seaman’s Retreat, the fourth building constructed for the newly founded hospital, dates from 1842. A relatively severe structure, built by the Staten Island Granite Company, the residence was designed to harmonize with the main hospital building completed in 1837. For most of its history, Seaman’s Retreat was the only hospital at […]
The main building of Seaman’s Retreat, the third building constructed for the newly founded hospital, dates from 1834-1853. An imposing granite ashlar structure, built by Abraham P. Maybie, the main building displays Greek Revival elements while evoking characteristics of the earlier Georgian tradition. Early 20th-century alterations retain and elaborate the Greek Revival character of the […]
Designated: October 12, 1982 The well-preserved Boardman-Mitchell House at 710 Bay Street, is a relatively rare surviving example of a fine early Italianate villa, dating from the initial period of Staten Island’s urban development. Built in 1848 in the Village of Edgewater, now a part of Stapleton, the house is situated atop a steep bluff […]
Curtis High School was Staten Island’s first public secondary school. The campus provides the setting for C.B.J. Snyder’s Collegiate Gothic-style buildings. The original four-story building of brick and limestone is rectangular in plan, with a central tower and gabled end pavilions. A south wing with workshops and classrooms, completed in 1922, demonstrates an evolving Gothing […]
This villa was built in the mid-1980s as a residence for Henry McFarlane, an early Staten Island developer, and later served as the clubhouse of the New York Yacht Club from 1868-1871. The long, low house–a two-story, clapboard-covered, wood-frame cottage with brick-filled walls–was designed to resemble an Italian-Swiss villa, in a short lived style that […]
Designated: October 12, 1982 Constructed c. 1844 by a developer as a rental residence known as Woodland Cottage, 33-37 Belair Road was once one of the many Gothic Revival villas and cottages built in the east shore suburb of Clifton after the late 1830s. The original portion of the house is a cross-gabled, two-story section […]
Edgewater Village Hall was built at the end of the nineteenth century as a municipal and city magistrate’s courthouse. Originally serving the village of Edgewater, the Romanesque Revival hall stands on a small, landscaped public square called Tappan Park.
