Mason House, Analostan Island, Washington DC: Photographs, written and historical data
Begins with a brief history of the Mason family including how General John Mason became owner of the estate on Analostan Island, later Theodore Roosevelt Island. It continues with a discussion of the appearance of the mansion built by Mason as well the beauty of the island as taken from accounts by contemporaries collected by Charles Cochran. Following the history is an extensive survey of the burnt remains of mansion by Stuart M. Barnette, an architect in the Park Service working for the Historical American Building Survey. Using photographs, observations of the site, and architectural drawings made by himself, Barnette discusses how the mansion might have appeared during Mason’s occupancy and points out the Classical Revival influence in the temple structure of the buildings. Barnette systematically discusses every aspect of the estate describing every room and ancillary building. He particularly focuses on finding an explanation for the incongruous layout of the buildings since according to Classical Revival style the layout would be symmetrical.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
Creation Date
1936
Creator(s)
Cochran, Charles; Barnette, Stuart M. (Stuart Moffett), 1905-1992