This 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

This 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.