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Title	Gardener's Cottage
Creator	unknown
Date.Original	1888
Description	Called variously the Gardener's Cottage or Gardener's Lodge, this building served as the gatehouse to the Donaldson estate, Blithewood. Though A.J. Davis is often credited as the architect, an 1845 article in an agricultural publication entitled 'The Cultivator' gives the credit for the design of this building to Robert Donaldson. "The credit of introducing to this country the Rural Gothic, or pointed style of architecture, belongs to Mr. Donaldson. The first specimen of this style was the gardener's cottage above-mentioned, which, for its taste and simplicity, excels anything of the kind we have ever seen. Mr. Donaldson was also, we believe, the first to introduce what is called the Bracketted style, several pretty specimens of which are shown among his numerous buildings." This is the only known photograph existing of this house. It was demolished around 1900 to make room for a stable and coach house on the Zabriskie estate.
Subject.LCSH	Photographs Gothic revival (Architecture)--New York Romanticism in architecture
Subject.TGM	Architecture Dwellings Gatehouses
Subject.Local	Blithewood
Personal Name	Donaldson, Robert, 1800-1872
Location	Annandale-on-Hudson - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Architecture Daily Life
Format.Original	photograph : b&w ; 4 x 3.5 in. (10 x 9 cm.)
Type	Still Image
Resource Identifier	bc_arch.blith.033.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2007-11
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Bard College Architecture, Past and Present
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Libraries collections.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ; pixels; no compression

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