Lyndhurst Mansion
by Joan Carroll
Title
Lyndhurst Mansion
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
If you say "Lyndhurst...it was Jay Gould's mansion..." you might get a few nods of recognition. If you say "Lyndhurst.... it was the set for the 1970 movie House of Dark Shadows, and the 1971 movie Night of Dark Shadows, both based on the famous gothic soap opera Dark Shadows", you probably get more nods of recognition. It was also used as the History Channel's set for The Men Who Built America in the summer of 2012. But on this pretty autumn day, there wasn't much evidence of that former fame. Lyndhurst is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York. Gould purchased the property in 1880 for use as a country house and occupied it until his death in 1892. Compared with other mansions along the Hudson River, Lyndhurst's rooms are "few and of a more modest scale". So they say....it's still much bigger than anything most of us have lived in! The design is strongly Gothic, with narrow hallways, small highly arched windows, and peaked and vaulted ceilings. The description of it as gloomy and somber is quite accurate. In 1961, Gould's daughter Anna Gould donated it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
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January 8th, 2015
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