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> The main house of Locust Grove is an Italianate style designed by Morse in 1950, inspired by his visit to the Italian countryside and its gardens. Amazing ac
by jihadjihad 4y ago
> The main house of Locust Grove is an Italianate style designed by Morse in 1950, inspired by his visit to the Italian countryside and its gardens.
Amazing achievement for a man dead and buried for nearly 80 years!
- svat 4y agoThis page has the correct century and more detail: https://www.lgny.org/historic-mansion https://www.lgny.org/historic-mansion > The main house at Locust Grove is a villa in the Italianate style designed in 1850 for artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse by architect Alexander Jackson Davis. [...] Morse had very clear ideas about what he wanted in what was to be his summer home [...] For inspiration, Morse recalled the elegant villas that he had visited years earlier in the Italian countryside and he sketched towers, windows and floor plans on scraps of paper to give to his architect.