John Ballantine House
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| Ballantine, John, House | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | 49 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1885[1] |
| Architect: | George Harney |
| Architectural style(s): | Late Victorian |
| Designated as NHL: | February 04, 1985[2] |
| Added to NRHP: | October 02, 1973[3] |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73001093 |
| Governing body: | Private |
The John Ballantine House was the home of Jeannette and John Holme Ballantine (son of Peter Ballantine, founder of the Ballantine beer company). It was built in 1885 at 49 Washington Street in the Washington Park section of Newark, New Jersey. It is now part of the Newark Museum next door and is open to the public for tours.
The architect who provided designs was George Edward Harney (1840-1924) [4] of New York. The house is a compact and symmetrical essay in a free Dutch Renaissance style,[5] using salmon-colored Roman bricks with limestone quoins and window surrounds and Gothic-Renaissance details. The interiors were also provided from New York, by D. S. Hess Company, "decorators and manufacturers of artistic furniture".[6] The Dining Room was hung with part-gilded embossed panels imitating the "Spanish" leather hangings that were popular in Holland and England in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. At Christmas season, the house is dressed with holly and other winter greens in traditional Victorian style. A brief history of the house, by its curator Ulysses Grant Dietz, The Ballantine House, was published by the museum in 1994 to coincide with the reopening of the house, which has belonged to the Newark Museum since 1937, after a two-year four-million dollar renovation. [7]
John Ballantine had become president of the family business in 1883 after his father passed away.[8]
The Ballantine House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985a.[2][9]
[edit] References
- ^ Newark Metro article
- ^ a b John Ballantine House. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ For another structure by Harney, see the Moffat Library (1887), Washingtonville, New York.
- ^ Mary L. Emblen and Alvin Klein in The New York Times December 4, 1994) recognized "an eclectic blend of Renaissance, Colonial Revival and Esthetic movement styles" but missed the Gothic cusps in the arch that shields the doorstep.
- ^ As the firm was described when fire gutted their five-storey premises in the former Van Auken house, at 421 Fifth Avenue, 2 February 1900; their stock and design archives were destroyed. (The New York Times, "Big fire in Fifth Avenue", 2 February 1900). Hess's wife was the former Sarah Lowenbein, whose brothers, as A. Lowenbein's Sons, were furniture manufacturers whose father claimed to have introduced American walnut to Europe and French veneers to the United States (William Smith Pelletreau, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York 1907,s.v. "Adolph Lowenbein").
- ^ (Elaine Louie), "In a Newark Manor, Remains of the Day", New York Times November 17, 1994.
- ^ Ballantine Brewing history
- ^ _______ (___, 19___), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: ________PDF (438 KiB), National Park Service and Accompanying ____ photos, exterior and interior, from 19____.PDF (1.32 MiB)
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