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20-533: The prison opened in 1935 as the New York State Vocational Institution , with buildings designed by Alfred Hopkins , an estate architect with a sideline in prisons such as Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Hopkins had also designed Woodbourne Correctional Facility and Wallkill Correctional Facility for the state. All three were designed on progressive principles, reflected

40-480: A building or structure in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a United States prison is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alfred Hopkins Alfred Harral Hopkins (March 14, 1870 – May 5, 1941) was an American architect, an "estate architect" who specialized in country houses and especially in model farms in an invented "vernacular" style suited to

60-495: A concern for aesthetics and a sense of places, and had no surrounding walls or fences. The first inmates received at this institution, generally known as "Coxsackie", were older inmates from the New York House of Refuge which was being closed after serving as a juvenile reformatory since 1825. Coxsackie continued this reformatory function, providing inmates with a program of academic and vocational education. Industrial training

80-458: A federal prison to be built at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary , completed in 1934. Hopkins was also among the architects who published plans for inexpensive carpenter-built housing in Carpentry and Building . and his small book Planning for sunshine and fresh air: Being sundry discourses & excursions in the pleasant art of building homes, set forth in a manner and upon

100-686: A theory ... how best to effect their proper economies appeared in 1931. In the 1920s and 1930s Hopkins was associated with architect John G. Dentz in the firm of Hopkins & Dentz, which developed a specialty in the design of large bank buildings, including the Buckeye Building in Columbus, Ohio and the Boji Tower in Lansing, Michigan . He published The Fundamentals of Good Bank Building in 1929. After an interim following his death, an architectural firm

120-495: Is less known for his Prisons and Prison Building (New York: Architectural Book Publishing 1930), where rational planning met other ends, in a progressive and humane program based on the classification of prisoners and their segregation by groups in small units; proposals that argued against walled prisons and for the uplifting effect of good architecture. His practical experience was founded on his work at Westchester County Penitentiary, Berks County Prison, and his proposed designs for

140-520: Is provided in mechanics, machine shop, printing, other trades, and agriculture. For the first ten years of its operation, Coxsackie received inmates by direct commitment from the courts. Since 1945, with the opening of the Elmira Reception Center, Coxsackie has received nearly all its inmates from this center. 42°20′37″N 73°50′10″W  /  42.34361°N 73.83611°W  / 42.34361; -73.83611 This article about

160-849: The Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris followed by several years in Rome completing his knowledge architecture, presumably in the early 1890s. By 1898, he returned to New York City and was practicing as an architect. Early in his career, Hopkins specialized in the design of farming complexes for the American capitalist during the Gilded Age. By 1900, he was designing a new farm group for Frederick W. Vanderbilt in Hyde Park, New York in association with Edward Burnett (1849-1925), an agricultural specialist who earlier developed and managed

180-902: The American elite. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects . Hopkins was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. His parents were Alfred Hopkins (1836-1884), a captain in the United States Navy, and Mary Elizabeth Penfield (1837-1898). They soon moved to Ohio where his parents gave birth to his brother Walter (b. 1879). Hopkins married Adelaide Spenlove (1894-1865) on June 30, 1915 in London, England. Following their marriage, Hopkins and his bride settled in New York City and had two sons—Alfred Spenlove Hopkins (1916-1995) and Peter Harrel Theodore Hopkins (1918-2004). Hopkins studied at

200-649: The Louis Comfort Tiffany mansion, Laurelton Hall, on June 4, 1916, Elizabeth "Bessie" Handforth Kunz wrote in the guest book: “Arabian night’s dreams vanish, at Laurelton a phantom has become reality, eternal.” The mansion was on the North Shore of Long Island, and had at that time 1,500 acres of woodland and waterfront, and was the location of a residential school for artists, the Tiffany Art Foundation, of which Bessie’s father, Dr. George Frederick Kunz ,

220-413: The buildings. An outstanding late survival of Hopkins' Cotswolds -inspired vernacular manner is the stable court at Hartwood, near Pittsburgh (1929). The same year he published a brochure distributed among architects, Two Cotswolds Villages , describing the vernacular architecture and stone-tiled roofs of two picturesque English villages: Bibury, Gloucestershire and Castle Combe, Wiltshire . Hopkins

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240-804: The farming operations for other members of the Vanderbilt family. Hopkins and Burnett maintained an office at 11 East 24th Street in New York City. Together they designed some of the country's most extraordinary farms, including Foxhollow, the Tracy Dows estate in Rhinebeck, New York, and a farm for Harry J. Fisher in Greenwich, Connecticut. Their collaboration, though not firmly documented during this time, probably resulted in several other farm projects associated with Hopkins New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Their work, particularly Hopkins architectural style, established

260-552: The sixteenth century , to attract clients. Hopkins' book went into a third edition. Hopkins laid out his farm buildings around paved courts or grassed paddocks, keeping rooflines and eaves low to blend with the landscape, and carefully separating the necessary farming functions. He preferred to remove hay storage from its traditional loft over the stables to eliminate dust infiltration and ammonia pollution. Open-sided sheds housed farm vehicles. The spatial routes of cows and horses were kept separate. Farmhands' quarters were integrated with

280-478: The standard for farm architecture and influenced an entire generation of architects. In 1913, he severed his association with Burnett and established himself as Alfred Hopkins & Associates located in the Architects Building at 101 Park Avenue in New York City. Hopkins continued specializing in gentlemen's farms, quickly establishing himself as the "dean of farm group architecture," due in no small part to

300-741: The success of his Modern Farm Buildings, first published in 1913 (dedicated to Edward Burnett) and two subsequent editions (with the Burnett dedication omitted). Hopkins farm groups appeared in Westchester County, New York, the Hudson River Valley, northern New Jersey, Illinois. He designed no fewer than fifteen farm groups on Long Island, including the farm at Laurelton Hall for Louis Comfort Tiffany . An article on farm groupings published in Architectural Record in 1915 notes that Hopkins

320-479: Was a trustee. Laurelton Hall housed a school for artists run by Tiffany and his Foundation beginning in 1918. The Laurelton Hall grounds also eventually contained a separate building which housed the Tiffany Chapel originally made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition and numerous Tiffany windows, and a separate art gallery building. Laurelton Hall eventually fell into disrepair in the years after Tiffany's death,

340-489: Was completed in 1905, and housed many of Tiffany's most notable works, as well as serving as a work of art in and of itself. It was also commonly referred to as the "Oyster Bay estate". The mansion was 84-room and sat on 600 acres of land, designed in the Art Nouveau style, and combined Islamic motifs with nature. The mansion was completed in 1905 and housed many of Tiffany's most notable stained glass works. On one visit to

360-526: Was founded in 1954 by six associates from his office, as La Pierre, Litchfield & Partners. Laurelton Hall Laurelton Hall was the home of noted artist Louis Comfort Tiffany , located in Laurel Hollow a village in the town of Oyster Bay in Long Island , New York . The 84-room mansion on 600 acres of land, designed in the Art Nouveau style, combined Islamic motifs with connection to nature,

380-564: Was often called upon to design the farm groups on estates where the residences were the work of other architects, such as Bertram Goodhue , John Russell Pope and Charles A. Platt . Hopkins was among the contributors to Stables and Farm Buildings: A Special Number of the Architectural Review produced by the staff of Architectural Review in 1902. His Modern Farm Buildings served to publicize his practical and picturesque esthetic, and in common with all architects' publications since

400-667: Was sold by the Foundation in 1949, and burned in 1957. The estate cost about $ 2,000,000 to construct and landscape and was sold for $ 10,000. The majority of windows and other surviving architectural pieces were salvaged by Hugh McKean and Jeannette Genius McKean of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art and shipped to Winter Park, Florida , after the fire. A major retrospective of Laurelton Hall opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in November, 2006. In 2010

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