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   Alexander Jackson Davis (July 24, 1803 – January 14, 1892) was an American architect known particularly for his association with the Gothic Revival style.

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   Alexander Jackson Davis was an American architect, designer, draftsman, and illustrator who was best known for his innovative, picturesque country houses. He helped establish the familiar type of American rural house in the “carpenter Gothic” style of the mid-19th century.

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   Learn about the life and work of Alexander J. Davis, the most influential designer of country houses in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. He was a master of Neoclassical and Gothic Revival architecture, and a collaborator with A. J. Downing and Llewellyn S. Haskell.

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   May 23, 2018 · Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) was a leading figure of the 19th-century Gothic revival in American architecture. Alexander Jackson Davis began as an apprentice architectural draftsman to Josiah Brady of New York in 1826, though his early painting ambitions remained evident in his lifelong picturesque approach to architectural design.

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   Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892) was one of the most influential American residential architects of the nineteenth century. His designs for country houses illustrated publications on landscape gardening and rural life that established an architectural vocabulary for American picturesquelandscape design between 1835 and 1850. Davis’s copious draw...

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   Born on July 24, 1803, in New York City, Alexander Jackson Davis [Figs. 1 & 2] was raised and educated in Utica and Auburn, New York. After apprenticing with a publisher in Alexandria, Virginia, between 1818 and 1823 (at the time still within the District of Columbia), Davis moved to New York City to study design at the American Academy of the Fine...

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   Mary Freeman Goldbeck, Portrait of Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1845.

   Sketch by Mary Freeman Goldbeck about 1858.

   Alexander Jackson Davis, Castle Garden, N. York, c. 1825–1828.

   Alexander Jackson Davis, “Viewof the Battery and Castle Garden,” 1826–28.

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   Learn about the life and work of Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892), one of the most influential American residential architects of the nineteenth century. Explore his designs for country houses, villas, cottages, and gardens that illustrated publications on landscape gardening and rural life.

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   Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) A. J. Davis, of New York; America's Pre-Eminent Architect of the Picturesque. He was born in New York City, but his father who struggled for work moved the family frequently and he grew up predominantly in Newark, Utica and Auburn.

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   Who was Alexander Jackson Davis?

   • Alexander Jackson Davis (July 24, 1803 – January 14, 1892) was an American architect. He is known particularly for his association with the Gothic Revival style. Davis was born in New York City and studied at the American Academy of Fine Arts, the New-York Drawing Association, and from the antique casts of the National Academy of Design.

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   Where can I find Alexander Jackson Davis Papers?

   • The principal collections of Alexander Jackson Davis’s papers are held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Avery Library of Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and the New York Historical Society, all in the City of New York. John V. Allcott, “Architect A. J. Davis in North Carolina,” North Carolina Architect, 20 (1975).

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   Where did Alexander Davis live?

   • Davis was born in New York City to Cornelius and Julia Jackson Davis. The family lived for a time in Utica and Auburn, New York. In 1818 young Alexander went to Alexandria (then in the District of Columbia) to learn the printing trade with his half-brother Samuel at the Alexandria Gazette.

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   Who was Alexander Jackson?

   • Davis, Alexander Jackson (1803–92). American architect, one of the most imaginative of his generation. His first important design was Highwood, a house at New Haven, CT. (1829–31), which brought him recognition, and, as a result, Ithiel Town invited him to become a partner in his office.

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   When did Andrew Jackson meet Alexander Jackson Davis?

   • Andrew Jackson, in a letter dated December 12, 1838 (quoted in Pierson 1978: 351), arranged a first meeting with Alexander Jackson Davis. At that time, Andrew Jackson was 'busily engaged in preparing a work for the press on Landscape Gardening and Rural Residences with the view of improving if possible the taste in these matters in the United States.'

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   What books did Alexander Jackson Davis write?

   • Alexander Jackson Davis is known for 'The Alexander Jackson Davis Sketchbook', 'Blithewood looking towards Montgomery Place', 'View of water with islands (Hyde Park)', 'Mount Gulian, Residence of G. C. Verplank, Esq.', and 'Shore Seat for Montgomery Place'. These are some of his notable works.

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   Learn about the life and work of Alexander Jackson Davis, a leading American architect of the antebellum period who designed the North Carolina State Capitol and other buildings in the state. Explore his style, influences, and legacy in this biography and building list.