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Kykuit was designed originally as a steep-roofed three-story stone mansion by the architects Chester Holmes Aldrich and William Adams Delano. Aldrich was a distant relative of the younger Rockefeller's wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who was involved as artistic consultant and in the interior design of the mansion. [citation needed]
The church was built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1921, as part of his plans to develop the town of Pocantico Hills, which was below his estate Kykuit. [2] Upon the death of Rockefeller's wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in 1948, their son Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Henri Matisse to design the church's rose window in honor of her memory ...
Kykuit, Rockefeller's elaborate mansion, was completed in 1906. In 1914, Kykuit became the site of numerous labor protests by radical anarchists, which protests were broken up by police in a series of violent clashes. [8]
Rockefeller grew up at Kykuit, the central mansion on his family's estate in Pocantico, Westchester County, in New York State.He is an alumnus of the Buckley School, Deerfield Academy (1985), Princeton University (BA 1989), and Harvard University (MBA 1996). [2]
Liste des châteaux de Bretagne (List of Breton manor houses in the French Wikipedia) Luettelo Suomen kartanoista (List of Finnish manor houses in the Finnish Wikipedia) There is a short list of Norman manoirs in Pays de Caux. Lijst van kastelen in Nederland (From the Dutch Wikipedia, a comprehensive list of castles and manor houses in the ...
[1] [3] Together they are responsible for designing some of the most famous Beaux-Arts buildings in New York; including Kykuit mansion at the Rockefeller estate in Westchester County, and the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the Grand Central Art Galleries. [1] However, only 33 buildings are credited as principal works of Aldrich. [2]
America's Castles is a documentary television series that aired on A&E Network from 1994 to 2005. Through interviews, historic photos and newly shot footage, the program documents the mansions and summer homes of the high society of The Gilded Age.
Codman's New York clients included John D. Rockefeller Jr., for whom he designed the interiors of the Rockefeller family mansion of Kykuit in 1913, and Frederick William Vanderbilt, for whom he designed the interiors for his mansion in Hyde Park, New York, and his house on Fifth Avenue.