TitleHouse of Otto H. Kahn, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., built 1915-17
Architect
William Adams Delano
(American, 1874 - 1968)
Datec. 1915
MediumGraphite and ink on paper
DimensionsSheet size: 14 3/8 × 21 1/8 in.
Mat size: 20 × 23 1/2 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Wm Adams Delano Arch't"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 7, 1938
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number13-A
Label TextDelano studied architecture at Columbia University for two years, and left the university to join the office of Carrere and Hastings. There he met his future partner, Chester Holmes Aldrich. From 1896 to 1902, he studied at the Ecôle des Beaux Arts. During the course of his career Delano created many mansions in the Beaux Arts style, including the home of the banker and railroad executive Otto Kahn. In 1921, Delano completed the house he designed for Kahn in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island on an artificial raised surface overlooking the Long Island Sound. The house, which was known as Oheka and now survives as a health spa, contains 72 rooms and is comparable in scale and grandeur to the Vanderbilt mansion in Asheville, North Carolina. Kahn's house resembles a French Chateau. The structure is almost stripped of ornament, but the small roof tiles, and limestone and stucco elements, instill the building with a sense of elegance.Collections
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