Talk:Davenport House (New Rochelle, New York)

Sans Souci House
Sans Souci House has been set up as a redirect to here, and the same pic as here in this article appears with that name at the Andrew Jackson Downing article. How is it known that is an alternate name for this house? It's not covered in the NRHP doc, so i hesitate to add it as an explicit, bolded alternative name in the article. Maybe there are better sources readily available than the NRHP doc, about this house, already? --doncram (talk) 00:00, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think you meant to refer to Andrew Jackson Downing; I think you intended to refer to Alexander Jackson Davis. --Orlady (talk) 02:29, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably, yes. Can't keep these 2 straight, esp. as they worked together. --doncram (talk) 04:32, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * The name is included on page 8 of 9 of the nom form (in the caption for a drawing). I would not mention the name in this stub article on the basis of that page because I have no information on when and why the house had that name. However, it's clear that this is some sort of an alternate name for the house, and I re-created the redirect to eliminate a redlink that pointed to that name.
 * This article and that redirect have a long and sordid history. The article was at one time created and edited by a sockpuppeteer "friend" of ours. The sockpuppet version (which contained incorrect information, among other issues) was deleted, but not before another user had created a Sans Souci House redirect (which also was deleted). The filename for the photo of this house calls it "Sans Souci" and another article that uses the photo captioned it with that name, including a link to Sans Souci House. That link became a redlink when the redirect was deleted.
 * After you (Doncram) created the stub article for Davenport House, I noticed the redlink in that other article and re-created the redirect in order to change the red to blue. --Orlady (talk) 02:26, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --doncram (talk) 04:32, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Home was purchased in 2013 by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Chad to the United Nations. It restored in 2014, and at that time the interior was gutted and reconstructed, a swimming pool and deck were added in the rear yard, the garage was enlarged, and an additional semi-circular drive and an entry gate was added.