page_title: Headley House
section_title: Musgrave Country Seat
hierarchical_section_title: Headley House / History / Construction / Musgrave Country Seat
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the Hudson from the back lawn of Headley House in New Windsor, New York. The area is now overgrown, obstructing the view.
context_page_description: The Headley House is a historic mansion in New Windsor, New York, built for historian, writer and explorer Joel T. Headley, who later served as a New York State Assemblyman for Orange County and the New York Secretary of State. Headley commissioned the house and grounds from local architect Andrew Jackson Downing, with assistance from his partner, Calvert Vaux. Subsequent owners were unaware of the house's significance until the 1990s, and fervor for Downing and Vaux in neighboring Newburgh often neglects its existence. The design, No. 14 "A Cottage in the Rhine style" featured in Cottage Residences, also inspired the William G. DeLuc House in Minnesota, considered a rare example of Gothic-inspired architecture there.
context_section_description: Harriet Pardee Musgrave took ownership of the house in 1870, purchased by her father. Harriet and her husband, Stephen B. Musgrave, supervised subsequent renovations and had a child that same year. George E. Harney, architect of the renovations, did business in Newburgh, replicating the original tastes of Downing in his work. In 1873, he contributed revisions to the new edition of Downing's Cottage Residences.
  
  One of Harney's most substantial additions, the porte-cochère, created a small solarium above the front entrance, jutting from the second floor. He made many interior changes on this floor, removing a dressing room and attic stairs to extend the central hallway. It joined the main house with the principal "kitchen wing", allowing for more servant bed chambers and general space on the second floor.
caption: View of the Hudson, now obstructed by overgrowth and development along Route 9W
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