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Bookcase, p. 80; Withers is credited (p. vii) with preparing the outlines of the architecture on wood engraving blocks; the Vaux & Withers designs are 1 "A simple Suburban Cottage", 5 "A Suburban House", 10 "A Suburban House with Attics", 13, "A Brick Villa with Tower and without attics", 19 "An
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Irregular Wooden Country House", 22 "An Irregular Brick Villa", 23 "A Suburban House with Curvilinear Roof", Vignette "Design for a Square House, 28 "A Picturesque Villa with Wing and Attics", 29 "A Town House", Vignette "Design for a Roomy Country house"
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style. The building was called "Jefferson Market" because the site chosen, in 1870 was at the time the Jefferson Market, the local produce market. The frieze on the outside of the building contains scenes from Shakespeare's
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Church architecture: plans, elevations, and views of twenty-one churches and two school-houses, photo-lithographed from original drawings, with numerous illustrations shewing details of construction, church
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stands at 448 Broome Street, Manhattan, but many of his urban designs went unrealized. By the 1880s he had separated from Vaux and worked in partnership with Walter Dickson (1835–1903), originally from
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Frederick Clarke Withers architectural drawings and papers, circa 1852-1890, held by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
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in the late 1970s and removed for display. One of Withers's most radical and linear villas of these years was "Tioronda" (1859–60), built for
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Nevius, Michelle, and James Nevius. 2009. Inside the Apple: a streetwise history of New York City. New York: Free Press. p. 135.
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The Architecture of Frederick Clarke Withers and the Progress of the Gothic Revival in America after 1850
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in February 1852 at the invitation of the prominent American horticulturist and burgeoning architect
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ecclesiastical designs. For portions of his professional career, he partnered with fellow immigrant
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Under the firm Vaux, Withers & Co., Withers designed his most famous building, the
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from Newburgh. As an independent architect in New York working largely in the
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mode, Withers wrote about architecture and designed in the highly colored
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Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, Westchester Square,
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Library from Frederick Deming House, "Morningside" (1859–60)
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Zabriskie Memorial Church of St. John the Evangelist,
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United States Daughters of 1812, National Headquarters
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Gymnasium, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC (1880)
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Index

Frederick C. Withers
Frederick Withers (politician)

Union Army
Shepton Mallet
Somersetshire, England
Yonkers, New York
Halsey Stevens House
Reformed Church of Beacon
Eustatia
Jefferson Market Courthouse
Chapel of the Good Shepherd
Gallaudet University
Hudson River State Hospital
Astor Memorial Reredos

Gothic Revival
Calvert Vaux
Andrew Jackson Downing
Newburgh, New York
High Victorian Gothic
Shepton Mallet
Robert Jewell Withers
Thomas Henry Wyatt
United States
Andrew Jackson Downing
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
Calvert Vaux

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