Nuits (Irvington, New York)
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| Location | Ardsley-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Nearest city | Yonkers |
| Coordinates | 41°01′27″N 73°52′25″W / 41.02417°N 73.87361°WCoordinates: 41°01′27″N 73°52′25″W / 41.02417°N 73.87361°W |
| Area | 4.5 acres (1.7 ha) |
| Built | 1852 |
| Architect | Detlef Lienau |
| Architectural style | Italian villa |
| NRHP reference # | 77000986 |
| Added to NRHP | 1977 |
Nuits, also known as the Cottenet–Brown House, is an Italian villa-style house located in the Ardsley-on-Hudson section of the village of Irvington, New York, United States. It is a stone Italian villa-style house built in the mid-19th century. In 1977 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It is the only surviving example of the early residential architecture of Detlef Lienau. Built for Francis Cottenet, a wealthy New York merchant, it was later owned and renovated by Cyrus West Field, John Jacob Astor III and Manhattan College. It remains a private residence.
Francis Cottenet, the first resident and owner of the property, came to the U.S. from France in 1822 and started an import-export business, Cottenet & Co., in New York. After 30 years, he contracted Detlef Lienau, one of a number of European-born architects working in America, to design a riverside villa for him. It was originally located on 65 acres (26 ha), the sole house between the Albany Post Road (now US 9) and the river in what has since become the Ardsley-on-Hudson section of Irvington.
Lienau insisted on French stone to be true to the appearance of its Continental models. Cottenet called on him again to remodel and expand the house in the late 1850s, just a few years after moving in. The locally based Lord and Burnham Company built the conservatory. The resulting structure was often pointed out to passengers on steamships going up the Hudson, with the implication that it was the ideally tasteful home of a man of wealth.
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