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Title	f. Plate 37, from Asher Benjamin's 'The American Builder's Companion'.
Creator	Benjamin, Asher, 1773 - 1845
Date.Original	1904-12-10
Publisher.Original	The American Builder's Companion or a New System of Architecture (Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1806), 58-59
Description	Plate 37 from a pattern book, showing the front facade, first and second floor plans. Written on the top right corner is 'Plate 37.' and along the bottom is written 'A. Benjamin Del.' and 'G.EoxSc.'. Below the top image of the front facade is written 'Scale 15 Feet to one Inch.'; Locust Lawn (The Josiah Hasbrouck House), an early nineteenth-century American house, front (west) side was derived from an illustration (Plate 37) in a contemporaneous builder's pattern book. Plate 37 was created by Asher Benjamin's in 'The American Builder's Companion or a New System of Architecture', first published in 1806. The west facade of Locust Lawn copies all the salient elements of Benjamin's charming villa design-the one:three:one rhythm of the bays; the fenestration; the placement of a central, arched doorway; the fenestrated raised basement; the end chimney; and most significantly, the raised attic and pediment crowning the central three bays. Evidence of the copyist's zeal and literal transcription of Benjamin's design appears in the roof as well as the blind oval windows "glazed" with wood in the pediment. Asher Benjamin (June 15, 1773 – July 26, 1845) was an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and the later Greek Revival. His seven handbooks on design deeply influenced the look of cities and towns throughout New England until the Civil War. Builders also copied his plans in the Midwest and in the South.
Subject.LCSH	Pattern design;
Subject.TGM	Pattern books Architects Architectural drawings Building construction Historic buildings Historic sites
Subject.AAT	federal historic house museums
Subject.Local	Hasbrouck family
Personal Name	Hasbrouck, Josiah, 1755-1821 Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845
Location	Gardiner - Ulster County - New York
HRVH Topic	Architecture
Language	eng
Format.Original	ink on paper; 8.98 x 4.927 in. (22.81 x 12.51 cm.)
Resource Type	Image
Resource Identifier	Asher_Benjamin_elevation.jpeg
Publisher.Digital	Historic Huguenot Street
Date.Digital	2008-05-02
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Exhibit Homepage	http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/notiontosew
Digital Collection	A Notion to Sew
Holding Institution	Locust Lawn Farm
Contact Information	2683 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 http://www.lgny.org/
Rights	Locust Grove holds copyright and reproduction rights. Permission for reproduction required.
Metadata Creator	Hurlburt, Ashley

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