Kragsyde

Kragsyde is the name of a mansion built at on Smith's Point at Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, United States, in 1883 and demolished in 1929. It is also the name of an exact replica built in 1982 on Swan's Island, off the coast of Maine near Bar Harbor. It was commissioned by Bostonian George Nixon Black, Jr. to the famous architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns .

Kragsyde is generally regarded as the perfect example of "Shingle Style," a subtype of American Queen Anne architecture. The architectural historian [Vincent Scully]] has called the house a masterpiece and stated that the two architects "never again...created house of such quality." ^[1] Rambling, haunting and evocative, the beautiful house set high on a dramatic headland was famous in its day and was published several times both in Europe and America. Nixon and his family occupied the house every summer from May until October to the end of their lives.^[2]

^ Vincent J. Scully Jr., The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright (1955; Yale University Press, New Haven, 1971), pp. 99-100.
^ www.woodlawnmuseum.com/Summer2006_web.pdf

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[1] Vincent J. Scully Jr., The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright (1955; Yale University Press, New Haven, 1971), pp. 99-100.

[2] www.woodlawnmuseum.com/Summer2006_web.pdf

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