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The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House and surrounding 23 acre Jay Estate form the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District of Rye, New York.〔Herbert Alan Johnson, "John Jay 1745-1829" (The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, 3d edition, Revised in 1995 to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of John Jay, Born December 12, 1745, p.57.)〕 This site is the surviving remnant of the farm where one of America's seven Founding Fathers, 〔Richard B. Morris, ''Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1973)〕 John Jay, (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829), grew up and where he also returned to celebrate the end of the Revolutionary War. 〔 Hubbard, Elbert, "John Jay," '' Magazine of American History,'' New York, January, February, March Issue 1902, p.27. 〕 The preserved property is located on the south side of the Boston Post Road (US 1) in Rye, New York and has a 3/4 mile view of Milton Harbor. It overlooks a 10,000+ year old Paleo-Indian archaeological site 〔Pfeiffer p. 2〕 and the oldest man-managed meadow on record in New York State. The house and its landscape are the keystones of a National Historic Landmark District (NHL) created in 1993.〔〔 and 〕 Out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs. ==Location and significance== Of America's seven founders, Jay alone was a native of New York State. He was raised in Rye from infancy at a country seat called "The Locusts" overlooking Long Island Sound. He returned there frequently throughout his illustrious career for important family gatherings most famously a celebration of his role as one of the three American peace commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Paris. 〔 Hubbard, Elbert, "John Jay," '' Magazine of American History,'' New York, January, February, March Issue 1902, p.27. 〕 Jay inherited the entire property outright in 1813 and conveyed it 9 years later in 1822 to his eldest son Peter Augustus Jay. Seven years after his father's death, Peter reluctantly took down the ancestral house but reincorporated its timbers, doors, shutters and nails into a new 1838 structure, locating the second construction on the footprint of the first building. Stylistic elements appear to have been influenced by architectural pattern books by Minard Lafever, Asher Benjamin and Chester Hills.〔 While the style of the mansion's facade is grand, the rear piazza replicates the simplicity and same dimensions of the first house, one story high and eighty feet long. 〔 Hubbard, Elbert, "John Jay," '' Magazine of American History,'' New York, January, February, March Issue 1902, p.27. 〕 Upon seeing the preserved landscape and viewshed of John Jay's youth and early adulthood, Justice Harry Blackmun remarked, "It was a place that struck me then as symbolic of what was impressive about certain aspects of the latter part of the 18th century—gracious living and status to be sure, but coupled with a sense of responsibility, particularly to government and to the art of getting along together."-- Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court.〔Justice Harry A. Blackmun, "John Jay and the Federalist Papers," ''Pace Law Review,'' 1988〕 The Jay mansion has been recognized as an outstandingly pure example of Greek Revival architecture. "The () Peter Jay House...is undeniably a major architectural landmark. This monumental Greek Revival style house has been generally recognized as one of the most important buildings of its type in the country. Its symmetrical massing, bold scale, and grandly austere detail are an extraordinary symbol of the increasing wealth and power of America during the decade of the 1830s. The house also reflects the importance of the Jay family in a maturing nation."-- Andrew Dolkart, architectural historian." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1838 Peter Augustus Jay House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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