Maple Lawn
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Maple Lawn
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Front (south) elevation, 2008
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| Location | Balmville, NY |
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| Nearest city | Newburgh |
| Coordinates | 41°31′25″N 74°0′41″W / 41.52361°N 74.01139°WCoordinates: 41°31′25″N 74°0′41″W / 41.52361°N 74.01139°W |
| Area | 1.19 acres (4,800 m2) |
| Built | 1859 |
| Architect | Frederick Clarke Withers |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 84002879 |
| Added to NRHP | 1984 |
Maple Lawn is a house in Balmville, New York, United States built in the Gothic Revival architectural style's Picturesque mode. It was designed by Frederick Clarke Withers, following principles of his late mentor, Andrew Jackson Downing, and built for a wealthy local family in 1859.
Since then it has undergone very few revisions, making it a well-preserved exemplar of the style, Withers' houses and Downing's aesthetics. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The house sits on a 1-acre (4,000 m2) lot on Downing Avenue in Balmville, an affluent unincorporated residential enclave in the Town of Newburgh just north of the city of Newburgh. The Hudson River is a short distance to the east down a steady slope. It is surrounded by mature trees of species including beech, black walnut and catalpa.
It is a two-and-a-half-story red brick building on a sandstone foundation with steeply-pitched gabled roof pierced by three brick chimneys. The south-facing front facade features a projecting central pavilion with white quatrefoil-pireced vergeboards at the overhanging eave. Dormer windows on either side are similarly appointed, as is the curving balustrade on an upper balcony. To the west of the doubled-doored entrance is a porch supported by chamfered posts and curved braces; to the east is a bay window.
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