The Henry W. Poor House was pictured in Harry W. Desmond and Herbert Croly, Stately Homes in America: From Colonial Times to the Present Day, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1903. It is a rare example of a large Jacobean Revival mansion; Bremo Recess, also designed in the Jacobean Revival style, is a relatively small structure.
No date of construction is provided for the Henry W. Poor House. I would estimate that it was built somewhere between 1870 and 1900. The porches on the house and the ballustrades in the garden appear to me to be of Victorian style, and the garden design is remniscent of other gardens laid out at Biltmore and other mansions of the late Victorian period.
The Henry W. Poor house is still in existence. (Thank you to a helpful reader who made me aware of the fact!)
Pictures from Harry W. Desmond and Herbert Croly, Stately Homes in America: From Colonial Times to the Present Day, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1903; digital editing by Sarah E. Mitchell. Other photographs of the house can be found in Barr Ferree, American Estates and Gardens, Munn and Company, New York, 1904.
Henry W. Poor had a second home in New York City. It was designed by McKim, Mead, and White. Images of the interior of the New York City Henry W. Poor house were also included in Harry W. Desmond and Herbert Croly, Stately Homes in America: From Colonial Times to the Present Day, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1903.
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