Recommendations for John Mason’s mansion
Memorandum providing recommendations for how to handle the ruins of John Mason’s mansion on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Stuart M. Barnette and O. F. Northington of the Historical American Buildings Survey recommend that a project be set up to further investigate the ruins. They cite the mansion as an important building in the development of U.S. architecture and provide a method for excavation based on the National Park Service. Barnette and Northington also recommend that a marker detailing the mansion’s place in history be placed near the site of the ruins. Accompanying these recommendations is a drawing depicting a conjecture of how the house may have appeared, a plan of the grounds showing the layout of all the buildings, and several photographs showing the ruins.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
Creation Date
1936-03-19
Creator(s)
Barnette, Stuart M. (Stuart Moffett), 1905-1992; Northington, O. F.