Principles & Elements

The Lyndhurst contains a consistent pattern of shapes and lines, the repetitive shapes of the windows and arches throughout the space. The lines throughout help to provide a stable balance completely around the building. The sharp texture around every edge of the mansion together forms a rhythmic pattern through the entirety of the structure.

Connections

The similar patterns and colors in the bricks of the Lyndhurst, fluidly connect despite the amount of added portions to the house over the years. The arches at every entrance of the building flow throughout the building. The rectangular shapes of the bricks connect to the shapes of some of the windows, doors and arches.

Materials

The exterior of the Lyndhurst mansion was made of Limestone bricks. The mansion is within an English naturalistic park, because of this, the property contains a conservatory. The greenhouse is framed with iron and built of glass, the conservatory used to be one of the largest greenhouses measuring around 390 feet long.

Light & Color

The limestone bricks throughout the entirety of the mansion were a combination of gray and beige-ish colors. In certain lightings, the Lyndhurst can look completely white, or all one solid color in general, as seen below. Despite the centuries that the Lyndhurst has survived, its luminous color continues to shine vibrantly in many different ways.

Experience

The Lyndhurst Mansion has shown me that despite the fact that a building has withheld throughout centuries, it can still remain a beautiful, historical location. Being able to share the experience of what once was a home and is now a beautiful tourist site, I want to go visit it immediately. Their website is full of amazing ways to be able to experience the history and I believe that it is amazing to be able to continue to provide such happiness to those who appreciate the greatness of the Lyndhurst Mansion.

Theories

The Lyndhurst Mansion was home to multiple families who used it as a vacation home and at times their permanent residence. Now, the Lyndhurst is a historically preserved building and is available for tours at any time except for the winter season. It is a great space to bring children or loved ones to bring awareness to the history of arts as well as the evolution of American culture. The 67 – acre estate provides multiple different events for people of all ages to experience all that the space has to offer today.

Technology

The Lyndhurst Mansion was built and designed in 1838, using a great deal of architectural technologies that were available at the time. We have studied and learned that design has evolved over time and despite the fact that we may think that design was harder to process at that time, the Lyndhurst Mansion is a perfect example that interior design was just as possible as it is today. As design technology increased, new families that lived in the mansion made different changes based on new design discoveries.

Finishes

The Lyndhurst Mansion must have been a difficult build at the time of its design. Its original structure was simple, yet complex, and slowly over the years became even more of a complex as well as larger structure. Although the remarkably architectural finishes on the building have evolved over time, they still consist of a continuous pattern throughout the building.

Furnishes

The Lyndhurst Mansion, as we now know, was built in 1838. Throughout the life that the space has lived, it has probably been redecorated tens of times. Currently, if you were to tour the Lyndhurst, you would be able to see its furniture collection consisting of original pieces from when the space was originally built. There are said to be more than fifty furnishings’ pieces designed by the original designer, Alexander Jackson Davis, and there are about thirty more that were brought into the mansion by Jay Gould when he purchased the mansion.

Telling Stories

The Lyndhurst Mansion has lived a long and healthy life. In doing so many families have grown children and grandchildren there, and made history by physically adding on to the mansion. The walls throughout the Lyndhurst surely hold thousands of stories of the families that lived there over the years. Multiple different time periods that included different styles of life, and of course design, that were able to be expressed through the built-in additions to the home, as well as the furnishings used on its interior.