Winyah Park

Three years later, in 1851, Lathers employed his personal friend and renowned architect Alexander Jackson Davis to design him a more seemly and dignified residence than the old farmhouse which existed.

[1] Revolutionizing the traditional single-house form that dominated colonial and early 19th-century domestic architecture, Davis was creating many of the country's finest villas and cottages in an entirely new, purely American style.

[3] Davis used Winyah's most striking feature, two adjacent but contrasting towers, in a much larger house named "Grace Hill", built in Brooklyn between 1854 and 1857.

The sixty-nine-foot tower in the front of the home collapsed into the center of the burning building, only two brick chimneys being left standing in the end.

The mansion contained thirty-five rooms, had originally cost $63,000, and underwent considerable cosmetic improvements prior to the fire during Col. Green's ownership.

The theory behind its destruction was that the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of some rags soaked with a floor-cleaning compound containing turpentine and oil which had been left in the lamp room.

The Remington’s' substantial gothic revival house located at 301 Webster Avenue, featured a sweeping lawn which sloped south toward Long Island Sound, providing views on three sides of the countryside.

The community was close to New York City affording easy access to the publishing houses and galleries necessary for the artist, and also rural enough to provide him with the space he needed for horseback riding, and other physical activities that relieved the long hours of concentration required by his work.