Hurst-Pierrepont Estate
Hurst-Pierrepont Estate
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Hurst-Pierrepont Estate This historic 19 acre estate, located in Garrison in Putnam County, New York, was built in 1867, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The home, a two story, five level brick Gothic villa featuring a four story, flat-roofed tower, was designed by noted architect Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) for Edwards Pierrepont (1817-1892). Alexander Jackson Davis was one of the most successful and influential American architects of his generation, and is noted for his association with the Gothic Revival style. Innovative and influential, Davis was a leader in bringing American architecture into the modern period, freeing it from past limitations and opening it to new forms and styles. His designs broke open the box-like American house form, with projections extending in every direction, with bay and oriel windows, and verandas linking the house with the surrounding landscape. Edwards Pierrepont was an American statesman, jurist and lawyer with a long distinguished career of government service. Born in 1817 in North Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University and New Haven Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He served as judge of the New York Supreme Court from 1857 to 1860. In 1867 he conducted the case for the government against John H. Surratt who was indicted as an accomplice in the murder of President Lincoln. In April 1875 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Pierrepont Attorney General of the United States.
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