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unusual facts about Ogden Codman, Jr.


Ogden Codman, Jr. House

The house was designed by Ogden Codman, Jr. and built from 1912-13 on 18th century French architectural style.


Ogden Codman, Jr.

 Woodward Haven (1908–09) is now occupied by Acquavella Galleries.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission later described the facade of number 7 as being "full of gaiety and frivolous vitality" and further, "on approaching the house, Paris and the Champs-Élysées immediately come to mind."

On October 8, 1904, Codman married Leila Griswold Webb, widow of railroad magnate H. Walter Webb.

In 1920, Codman left New York to return to France, where he spent the last thirty-one years of his life at the Château de Grégy, wintering at Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer, which he created by assembling a number of vernacular structures and their sites: it is his masterpiece, the fullest surviving expression of his esthetic.


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