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Interesting. Looks like a cross between an English castle and a Chinese pagoda.
It is, actually. That was the design they aspired to.
Is it a church? It's very beautiful - both the building and the grounds!
Mike, it is a rather famous seminary for the Maryknoll missionary order. The building is mammoth. Part of it is a church, to the right.
That is a whole lot of house...more than most people really need of course, but I wouldn't mind staying there for a while.
Great shots of an awesome structure!
Ah the wonders of wordless Wednesday,
Paul
It's lovely! Have you seen the inside? I'd love to take a tour someday....
Interesting mixture of styles, but it works!
Agree with @Jane in that it looks like a cross between and English castle and Chinese pagoda.
Must be a couple hundred years old!
How beautiful is that! And I love the puppy, was he/she on the grounds? or is that your puppy?
Actually, it was built in the 1920's. That dog must belong to a missionary. We just saw it in the courtyard and had to get a pic.
The inside is enormous, with tons of offices, conference rooms, shrines, classrooms (it is a seminary), apartments a chapel.
Maryknoll is only 5 minutes from my house, if that. It is a strange dichotomy of Ossining- Sing Sing Prison down on the river and Maryknoll mission and seminary up on the hill.
It was built by architect William Rutherford Mead of the famous McKim, Mead, and White trio. (They built many famous buildings in NY such as those at Columbia University, the old Penn Station, plus many more.) The reason why the architecture looks Chinese or Asian is because that was the destination of its missionaries -- off they went from here to China, Korea, and Japan in the early 1900s, and today they also go to Latin America, Africa, etc. This connection with the East is not just on the exterior, but almost everything inside, down to the massive wooden doors carved in a Shoji screen like pattern, are faithful to that Far Eastern theme and it is done pretty majestically -- surprisingly nothing clashes and all the disparate details seem to work so well together. It's a great blend of art and purpose. You might even run into a seminarian or a brother dressed like a monk, with a beard like someone in ZZ Top has, and in sandals, as we did when we dropped by recently. He nodded silently hello and I nodded back, and the peaceful silence of the beautiful arched & ribbed hallways was never broken. :-)
Maybe that's why MAD MEN has its leading character, Don Draper, as being from Ossining with its Sing-Sing Prison on one side, and Maryknoll on the other -- trapped psychically within his own private prison, he searches for redemption & salvation... Or maybe they just liked the name, Ossining. ;-)
It's the John Cheever connection.
Wow that is interesting ... I have never seen anything like it.
Thanks for sharing,
Lori Cofer