City Club | |
 The City Club in May 1970 | |
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| Location | 120 Grand Street Newburgh, New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°30′13.29″N 74°0′33.23″W / 41.5036917°N 74.0092306°W |
| Built | c.1851-1852 |
| Built by | Franklin Gerard |
| Architect | Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing
Frank E. Estabrook (rear expansion) |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| Part of | Montgomery–Grand–Liberty Streets Historic District (ID73001246) |
| Designated CP | 1973 |
The City Club, known also as the William Culbert House, is a historic ruin at the corner of Grand and 2nd Streets in Newburgh, New York. Designed in the early 1850s by Calvert Vaux and Andrew Jackson Downing, the house survived Urban Renewal efforts but succumbed to fire in 1981. Plans have been made since its destruction to reconstruct the interior, a project often paired with restoration of the nearby Dutch Reformed Church, but none have ever been executed. The house appears in Vaux's most celebrated work, Villas and Cottages (1857) as Design No. 22. It is one of the earliest Second Empire houses in the United States, designed just after Detlef Lienau's now lost Hart M. Shiff House (1850) and the earlier Edward Deacon House in Boston's South End.[1] For a brief time in the late 1970s, the former City Club housed the offices of restorer Brian Thompson. Due to its centralized location, it has become a symbol of the restoration movement in Newburgh, also representing the city's decay.
- ^ Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2005). Then and Now: Boston's South End. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. p. 13. ISBN 9780738539492.