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Merritt, the house's second owner, engaged Davis as his architect, and in 1864–1865 doubled the size of the house, renaming it "Lyndenhurst" after the estate's linden trees. Davis' new north wing included an imposing four-story tower, a new porte-cochere (the old one was reworked as a glass-walled vestibule), a new dining room, two bedrooms ...
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Lyndhurst is a township in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 22,519, [9] [10] an increase of 1,965 (+9.6%) from the 2010 census count of 20,554, [19] [20] which in turn reflected an increase of 1,171 (+6.0%) from the 19,383 counted in the 2000 census.
Lyndhurst house was built between 1834 and 1837 as a "suburban villa" with view to Blackwattle Bay by Verge for Bowman, the principal colonial surgeon and his wife Mary. [4] Mary was a daughter of graziers John and Elizabeth Macarthur. The house overlooked Blackwattle Bay and no expense was spared on its building or fitting out.
Glasshayes House (the former Lyndhurst Park Hotel) is the only surviving example of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's architectural experimentation, and local folklore records Lyndhurst as the site of a Dragon-slaying, and as being haunted by the ghost of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole.
Gladstone Apartment House, 1101 Pine Street, Philadelphia (1889–90, demolished 1971). [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Now the site of Louis Kahn Park. Alexis I. duPont School, 3130 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, Delaware (1893-94, expanded 1917, 1938, 1960, renovated 1974)
The Kingsland explosion was an incident that took place during World War I at a munitions factory in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, United States, on January 11, 1917. An arbitration commission in 1931 determined that, "In the Kingsland Case the Commission finds upon the evidence that the fire was not caused by any German agent."