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Building-structure inventory form: Spencer Trask "Trayaddo" "Villa Apartments" "Loomis Laboratories"

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Title	Building-structure inventory form: Spencer Trask "Trayaddo" "Villa Apartments" "Loomis Laboratories"
Creator	New York (State). Division for Historic Preservation
Date.Original	1977-04-22
Contributors	Clark, Donald. F. (Orange County Historian)
Description	Inventory form for building located on Crows Nest Rd; east side; west of Ants Hill Rd. recording the following information: The Hon. Wm. Bozzuffi (owner at time of inventory). A three story stone and timbered structure, asymmetrical in plan with steep gable and crenelated stone tower. Gable is stone with lacy bargeboard and pendant. Elaborate tracery of wood with stained glass and leaded panes. Hood moulding. Lancet windows without tracery (early English). Grape vine and foliated wooden frieze under overhang. A variety of fenestration including diamond window. Stone sills. Gabled dormer. Patterned brick chimneys. Built in 1901. In 1901, Spencer Trask, a banker, financier, and founder of YADDO, a 400 acre retreat for artists in Saratoga Springs (still functioning) purchased property, Lot 146 from the Tuxedo Park Association. On the 1903 map, the estate is called Trayaddo and a large stone mansion is shown along with one frame stable. The estate, in 1926 was sold to Alfred Lee Loomis, physicist, who soon converted it into the Loomis Laboratories where he conducted studies of physical and biological effects of high frequency sound waves, Aberdeen chronography, precision measurements of time and electrical potentials of the brain. He was a pioneer in the design of the Loran Navigation System. The laboratories were operative from 1928-1941. Mr. Loomis also commissioned William E. Lescaze, Swiss architect to build a glass laboratory on an adjoining property in 1936. (current owner: Edith Smith) Mr. Loomis himself maintained his residence on Clubhouse Road, in a house which had been designed by Wilson Eyre for Harleston Deacon. Mr. Loomis purchased that property in 1921. Current owner: Dr. F.J. Biondolilio.
Location	Tuxedo Park - Orange County - New York
HRVH Topic	Architecture
Language	eng
Format.Original	paper form : 8.5 x 11 inches
Resource Type	Text Image
Publisher.Digital	Tuxedo Park Library
Digital Collection	Village of Tuxedo Park National Register of Historic Places Inventory
Holding Institution	Tuxedo Park Library
Contact Information	227 Route 17 Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 (845)-351-2207 http://www.rcls.org/tuxpl/
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any image from the digital collections of the Tuxedo Public Library.
Technical Data	Archival TIFFs: 300dpi, 8-bit Grayscale, Professional Photography by Hudson Microimaging, Scanner: IBML, Operator: Brittany Lawlor

Title	v06_053-01
Resource Identifier	v06_053-01.jpg
Publisher.Digital	Tuxedo Park Library
Date.Digital	2010
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Contact Information	227 Route 17 Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 (845)-351-2207 http://www.tuxedoparklibrary.org/
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any image from the digital collections of the Tuxedo Public Library.

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