Litchfield Villa

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Litchfield Villa is an Italianate mansion built in 1854 on a large private estate that has since become part of Prospect Park, Brooklyn.[1]

The villa was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, America's leading architect of the fashionable Italianate style for railroad and real estate developer Edwin Clark Litchfield. [2]

After years of neglect, an extensive renovation was funded by an anonymous descendent of the Litchfield family. The renovation, under the direction of architect Ralph Carmosino, was completed in 2008.[3]

[edit] External links

http://www.prospectpark.org/villa

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Litchfield Villa; Back to the Past for a Landmark in Prospect Park , By CHRISTOPHER GRAY , New York Times, March 12, 1989 [1]
  2. ^ Alexander Jackson Davis, American Architect, 1803-1892, by Amelia Peck, 1992 , p. 94
  3. ^ New Life for Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park , By FRANCIS MORRONE, May 19, 2008, New York Sun, [2]
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