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5 unusual facts about Christopher Gray


Astor Court Building

Architectural historian Christopher Gray believes that the landscape architect may have been Ellen Biddle Shipman.

Griffith Thomas

Architecture writer Christopher Gray called him "one of the most prolific architects of the period" (the mid-19th century).

Harry F. Sinclair House

In 1996 architectural historian Christopher Gray quoted an anonymous critic writing for the Real Estate Record & Guide in 1899, who in praising the design noted that much of the ornament was ecclesiastical in origin rather than domestic.

Pomander Walk

According to city historian Christopher Gray, when Healy was unable to get financing for a hotel, he built the houses that stand on the site today, apparently to provide a temporary cash-flow while he waited to raze them and build the hotel.

Thorne Memorial School

Christopher Gray has found that Beardsley, who established himself later with the 1903 Dutchess County Court House in Poughkeepsie and went on to design many public buildings in the state, lived on the same Millbrook street as Frank Welling, supervisor of the construction for the school board.



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