page_title: Headley House
section_title: Interior
hierarchical_section_title: Headley House / Design and description / Interior
caption_attribution_description: English: Original drawing room now staged as a dining room. Decorated for Christmas in 2018.
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: It is through the tower's Moorish-style entranceway that one enters the house, with a repeated larger one into the main hallway, suggesting a Vaux implementation as seen at Olana.
  The first floor, larger than the others, stands at 12' with walls 1' thick. The second, or chamber floor, is 9 1/2' with an 8" thickness.
caption: Original drawing room, decorated for Christmas and serving as the current dining room
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