Armour-Stiner House

Armour-Stiner House

Infobox nrhp
name = Armour-Stiner House
locmapin=New York
nrhp_type = nhl



caption = House in 2007, with top of dome undergoing renovation
location = 45 W. Clinton Ave., Irvington, NY
nearest_city =
lat_degrees = 41 | lat_minutes = 1 | lat_seconds = 50.94 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 52 | long_seconds = 16.02 | long_direction = W
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built = 1860
architect = Unknown
architecture = Octagon Mode
designated = December 8, 1976 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1556&ResourceType=Building
title=Armour-Stiner House|date=2007-09-14|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service
]
added = December 18, 1975 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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refnum = 75001238
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governing_body = Private
The Armour-Stiner House, also known as the Carmer Octagon House, is a unique octagon-shaped and domed Victorian style house located at 45 West Clinton Avenue in Irvington, in Westchester County, New York. It is reported to be the only domed octagonal residence in the world, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000572.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Armour-Stiner House] |394 KB|author=Thomas M. Slade|date=August 19, 1976|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/75001238.pdf "Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 1970-1975"] |2.25 MB]

The house was built in 1859-1860 by financier Paul J. Armour based on the architectural ideas of Orson Squire Fowler, although the specific architect of the house is unknown. The dome was added and the house was enlarged during 1872-1876 by Joseph Stiner, who was a tea importer. The Armour-Stiner House is said to be one of the most lavish octagon houses built in the period, and is now one of only perhaps a hundred still extant. [http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/NY.html] [http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/images/irvington_ny.jpg] [ [http://users.rcn.com/scndempr/dave/school.html Dave's Victorian House Site - Victorian House School ] ]

The house was later occupied by historian Carl Carmer, who maintained that it was haunted. In 1976, the house was briefly owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to prevent it from being demolished. The Trust was unable to fund the amount of renovation the property required, and sold it to a preservationist architect, Joseph Pell Lombardi, who has conserved the house, interiors, grounds and outbuildings. [Irvington Historical Society, [http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp03.html Octagon House] ] [Arthur G. Adams, [http://books.google.com/books?id=KIkHuzvZTGYC&pg=RA1-PA129&lpg=RA1-PA129&dq=abbotsford+irvington&source=web&ots=ZSUdXc_8OG&sig=JLTMWg81LrWHArQ9IbG-l-Qje0c#PRA1-PA129,M1 "The Hudson River Guidebook"] (1996) ISBN 0823212025.] [ [http://www.josephpelllombardi.com/5homes/octagon.html Armour-Stiner Octagon House] ]

The house remains a private residence. It is located on the south side of West Clinton Avenue, on the crest of a hill overlooking the Hudson River, to the west. It is about 1650 feet from the river, and about 140 feet above it, consistent with Fowler's siting ideas. [See data pages of HABS, page __] The Old Croton Aqueduct, another National Historic Landmark, abuts on the east.

It is known that other domed octagonal residence were built in America, but it is unknown if any of them still exist. [See HABS data pages, page__.]

An exterior shot of the home was used in the film, Across the Universe (film). [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/ Across the Universe (2007) ] ]

ee also

*Octagon house
*Irvington, New York

References

Notes

External links

* [http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp03.html Armour-Stiner House (The Octagon House)] , at Irvington Historical Society
* [http://www.josephpelllombardi.com/5homes/newoctagon.html The Armour-Stiner (Octagon) House, Irvington-On-Hudson, New York] , at Joseph Pell Lombardi, Architect.
* [http://www.josephpelllombardi.com/news_articles/indexnews.html Multiple articles] , at Joseph Pell Lombardi in the News
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(NY1158)) 4 architectural drawings from 1975; 35 aeriel, exterior, and interior b&w photos from 1974, 1975, 1978; a 13 page report; and 4 color aerial photos of Armour-Stiner House] (click on icons at top left), at Historic American Buildings Survey.
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(NY1300)) 1 b&w photo of gazebo at Armour-Stiner House] (click on icon at top left), at Historic American Buildings Survey.
* [http://www.livingplaces.com/NY/Westchester_County/Irvington_Village/Armour-Stiner_House.html Living Places—The Armour-Stiner House] , at the Gombach Group, Inc.


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