VOLUME CXXXII OCTOBER 5, 1927 NUMBER 2530
THE
AMERICAN ARCH ITECT
FOUNDED 1876
MONTGOMERY PLACE, BARRYTOWN, NEW YORK
By Brigadier General John Ross Delafield, A. M., LL. B.
Restored by the Owner—Dwight James Baum, Architect, Consultant
On a beautiful day in July, 1818, a steamer flying many flags at half mast, stopped in midstream between the banks of the Hudson while a United States Army band played a funeral march and the salute to the dead was given. No human habitation was at first visible along the wooded shores, but on further search one saw a house of good taste and moderate proportions set back from the shore in a cove of the river with rocky shores and islets. On the veranda stood a lady, alone, watching as it
passed the boat bearing the remains of her beloved husband, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery who had been killed leading his troops in the attack on Quebec in 1775. Before the boat went by she had fallen unconscious.
After her husband’s death Mrs. Montgomery could no longer be happy in the home she had planned with him and built at Grasmere, Rhinebeck. Her mother, Margaret Beekman, then the widow of Judge Robert R. Livingston, wishing to
EAST ELEVATION
(Copyright, 1927, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)
THE
AMERICAN ARCH ITECT
FOUNDED 1876
MONTGOMERY PLACE, BARRYTOWN, NEW YORK
By Brigadier General John Ross Delafield, A. M., LL. B.
Restored by the Owner—Dwight James Baum, Architect, Consultant
On a beautiful day in July, 1818, a steamer flying many flags at half mast, stopped in midstream between the banks of the Hudson while a United States Army band played a funeral march and the salute to the dead was given. No human habitation was at first visible along the wooded shores, but on further search one saw a house of good taste and moderate proportions set back from the shore in a cove of the river with rocky shores and islets. On the veranda stood a lady, alone, watching as it
passed the boat bearing the remains of her beloved husband, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery who had been killed leading his troops in the attack on Quebec in 1775. Before the boat went by she had fallen unconscious.
After her husband’s death Mrs. Montgomery could no longer be happy in the home she had planned with him and built at Grasmere, Rhinebeck. Her mother, Margaret Beekman, then the widow of Judge Robert R. Livingston, wishing to
EAST ELEVATION
(Copyright, 1927, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)