Capital Column and Base
James Harrison Dakin American
Alexander Jackson Davis American
This monumental marble column in the Greek Revival style comes from New York City’s famed LaGrange Terrace (also called Colonnade Row). Built in 1833 on present-day Lafayette Street by the developer Seth Geer, LaGrange Terrace was an elegant row of nine homes graced by an impressive two-hundred-foot-long Greek Revival façade and a twenty-eight-foot-high colonnade, all of Tuckahoe marble. It was among the most fashionable addresses in the city, attracting the likes of John Jacob Astor and Washington Irving. In 1903 five of the houses were demolished (leaving the four that still stand), their facades taken to a Morristown, New Jersey, estate. There they lay, forgotten, until 2009, when, through the courtesy of Delbarton School, this column was made available to the Museum.
