Many thanks to historic interpreter Danielle Funiciello for her expert tour, and her assistance with this post.Īll photographs ©2017 by Susan Holloway Scott. See their Facebook page for more information about visiting and tour reservations. The Schuyler Mansion is now a state historic site, and open to the public. (It's also tempting, and visitors are cautioned not to touch the lushly fuzzy patterns.) Impressive as it all is today, 18thc guests to the house must have been left in amazement by so much colorful splendor - exactly as Philip would have wished. (He also purchased a special scenic wallpaper that I've written about here.) While the original 18thc papers have long vanished from the house's walls, replicas have been created and hung in their place - the expert work of the Peebles Island Resource Center of the Regional Alliance for Preservation.Īs you can see from these photographs (click on the photo above for a slide show), the effect is stunning, the mixture of colors and textures both bold and sophisticated. Miraculously, the record of exactly what he purchased remain in an "Invoice of Sundries to America." He bought flock wallpaper, listed by color, as well as "caffy," a kind of flock that copied damask patterns, enough to paper nearly every room. The scale of the patterns tended to be large, and looked best in big rooms like the ones that Philip was having built in his new house. Mimicking the elaborate patterns of woven silk damask, flock (the flock was pulverized, powdered wool, a by-product of the woolen industry, that was applied to the paper with a turpentine-based glue) wallpapers were the height of luxurious display in the 18thc, and the richly patterned and textured papers hung on the walls of royal palaces. To calculate the number of rolls you need: 1) Measure the height and the width of your space in inches 2) Multiply the two numbers 3) Divide the sum by 144 4) Divide by coverage per roll (i.e. It's easy to imagine fashionable shopkeepers racing to bring out their best wares for the consideration of the New Yorker with deep pockets, and I only hope that his wife Catherine, left behind in Albany with their growing family (she'd eventually bear fifteen children), had some say in the decoration of their new home.Īmong Philip's stylish indulgences were flock wallpapers. Recommended for smooth surfaces that are in good condition. He had both considerable wealth and considerable taste, especially for a young man he was only 28 when the house was begun. Philip Schuyler was determined that everything in his new house would be in the latest style, and while on a trip to London in 1761-62 on business, he went on something of a buying spree. The Pastures (now called the Schuyler Mansion) is a magnificent Georgian brick house built by Eliza's father, landowner, merchant, and politician General Philip Schuyler between 1761-1765, as the centerpiece to his sizable 125-acre estate overlooking the Hudson River. NuWallpaper Dandelion Peel & Stick Wallpaper Gray. NuWallpaper Woods Peel & Stick Wallpaper Gray. Eliza Schuyler Hamilton moved into her family's new home when she was a young girl. Tempaper Feather Flock Chalk Self-Adhesive Removable Wallpaper.
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