Mansard Monday Before & After ~ Sebring-Ten Eyck-Ostrander House, Schodack Landing, New York.
Built as a Federal style country house in 1784 for Cornelius Sebring, a wealthy New York City merchant and landowner, the house was remodeled in the Second Empire style in the later-19th century. The original primary facade faces the Hudson River and includes a Palladian window above what was the front entrance.
The main entry was shifted to the road elevation with the remodeling that included the Mansard roof, bracketed cornice, lengthened first floor windows, and the full-width porch.
The house has been misidentified as the “Capt. Schermerhorn House” in recent years, but documentation shows that Sebring built the house and by 1834 Jacob Ten Eyck owned it. It remained in the Ten Eyck family through the 1860s. By 1876, Wiliam Ostrander owed it and may have been responsible for the Second Empire style remodeling.
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