Hyde Hall

Billiard Room Marble Mantel, Great House (1829 – 1834)

Office Marble Mantle, Great House (1829 -1834)

Billiard Room Marble Mantel, Great House (1829-1834)

Hyde Hall, Springfield, New York

Supplied by Joseph N. Barnes

New York City, New York

c.1830

On September 3, 1831, George Clarke (1768-1835) purchased three marble mantels from Joseph N. Barnes, a marble cutter based in New York City, for $600. The cast-iron fireboxes cost $246.87. This mantel is made of Portoro marble, a black marble with yellow veins that is found in La Spezia in Northern Italy.

Balcony Railing, Great House (1829 – 1834)

Balcony Railing, Great House (1829 - 1834)

 

Balcony Railing, Great House (1829-1834)

Hyde Hall, Springfield, New York

Made by Amos Fish (1802-1877)

Albany, New York

1833

This design is typical of the elegant Federal era ironwork designed by Phillip Hooker (1766-1836), the leading architect in early 19th  century Albany, New York. On February 4, 1833, George Clarke (1768-1835) paid the master blacksmith $346.31 for bringing the railing from Albany and installing it over the portico of the Great House at Hyde Hall.

Wooden Mold

Wooden Mold

 

Wooden Mold

Made by Joseph Shepley (w.1830-1838)

Cooperstown, New York

 1831

As Hyde Hall was nearing completion, George Clarke (1768-1835) commissioned Joseph Shepley, a carver who worked in Cooperstown between 1831 and 1839, to make wooden molds to create the plaster ornamentation of the rooms in the Great House. This motif appears in the soffit of the ceiling.

 
 
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