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Partial view of structure known as Zabriskie's Drill Hall
This photograph was donated to Bard College by J. R. Delafield. A handwritten inscription, signed J. R. Delafield, dates the photograph[h to 1888, and identifies it as ‘the Coach House on the estate of John Bard,’ though the structure dates to…
Exterior of Donaldson's Blithewood
This engraving served as the frontispiece for Andrew Jackson Downing’s Treatise on Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture. This shows the exterior of Donaldson’s Blithewood. The house faced the river and featured a broad, trellised porch that…
Detail of elevation blueprint for the Blithewood Garden
Design for formal garden, Residence of Andrew Zabriskie, Esq., Barrytown-on-Hudson, NY
Detail of elevation blueprint for the Blithewood Garden
Design for formal garden, Residence of Andrew Zabriskie, Esq., Barrytown-on-Hudson, NY
Blithewood, Barrytown-on-Hudson, p. 16 -17, Town & Country Magazine, Number 3016, March 5, 1904
Blithewood was featured in this article in Town and Country, an Illustrated Weekly on March 5, 1904. The Blithewood mansion and garden were created at the turn of the twentieth century by Francis L. V. Hoppin (1867–1941), of the architectural firm…
Blithewood Garden, Bard College, view, looking west, of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River
Located on the grounds of Bard College, Blithewood is a walled Italianate garden. The garden and adjacent mansion were designed by Francis L. V. Hoppin, of the architectural firm Hoppin & Koen for Captain Andrew C. Zabriskie and his wife, Frances…
Blithewood Garden, Bard College, view looking west, of pool and pavilion
Located on the grounds of Bard College, Blithewood is a walled Italianate garden. The garden and adjacent mansion were designed by Francis L. V. Hoppin, of the architectural firm Hoppin & Koen for Captain Andrew C. Zabriskie and his wife, Frances…