Hyde Hall

Hyde Hall is a neoclassical country mansion in Springfield Center, New York, designed by architect Philip Hooker for George Clarke (1768–1835), a wealthy landowner.

The ancestral home of the Clarke family was at Hyde in Cheshire in northwest England, now part of Manchester.

[3][4] The younger George Clarke, having inherited his great grandfather's extensive fortune and lands in New York, settled in Albany in 1806.

In 1817 he purchased lands on Lake Otsego adjacent to his wife's estate and contracted with Hooker for a country villa.

The architecture reflects the building's evolution during the 14 years of its construction, with a series of wings facing a central courtyard.

It is located in New York within Glimmerglass State Park on Otsego Lake at the base of Mount Wellington.

Oblique view showing mass of building to rear