Editing Cooperstown, New York (section)

== Architecture ==
[[File:Appletons' Cooper James Fenimore Otsego Hall.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Otsego Hall]]]]

There are, and were, significant residential, commercial, and religious structures in Cooperstown. Original residences related to the founding Cooper family, such as Edgewater and Heathcote, are still standing. [[Otsego Hall]], James Fenimore Cooper's residence which once stood in what is now Cooper Park, has been lost, along with his chalet. Byberry, the cottage built for his daughter, remains on River Street, albeit in altered form.<ref>{{cite web
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"Fynmere", a grand stone manor from the early 20th century, erected by Cooper heirs on the eastern edge of town, was designed by noted architect [[Charles A. Platt]]. Later donated to the Presbyterian Church as a retirement home, the property was razed in 1979. Both its grounds and those of neighboring property Heathcote (extant today), built for Katherine Guy Cooper (1895–1988), daughter-in-law of James Fenimore Cooper III, were laid out by noted landscape architect [[Ellen Biddle Shipman]].<ref name="tlat">{{cite web
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Residences, business, and properties related to the Clark family abound within the village. From the original family seat of "Fernleigh" to the 1928 [[Georgian Revival architecture|Georgian]] manor of "West Hill", the properties are exceptionally well cared for. Fernleigh is a [[Second Empire architecture|Second Empire]] stone mansion designed by New Jersey architect [[James Van Dyke]] and built in 1869. The original garden at Fernleigh, located to the south of the mansion, included a servants' house and Turkish bath; both details have since been lost. In 1923, Stephen C. Clark, Sr. commissioned [[Marcus T. Reynolds]] and [[Bryant Fleming]], a landscape design professor at [[Cornell University]], to design new gardens for Fernleigh.<ref>[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!226329!0#focus Fernleigh 1996–1998<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

The manor home of [[Robert Sterling Clark]], Red Creek Farm, remains on the outskirts of the Village. His brother [[F. Ambrose Clark]]'s "Iroquois Farm" manor house was razed in the early 1980s. Also razed in 1979 was the Mohican Farms manor house, owned by the Clark Estates, in Springfield Center, New York. It was formerly the summer home of the Spaulding sporting good family from Buffalo.

[[Edward Severin Clark]] built a farm complex at Fenimore Farm in 1918, which has been adapted as the [[Fenimore Farm & Country Village]]. His stone manor, built in 1931, was bequeathed to the [[New York State Historical Association]] and today serves as the [[Fenimore Art Museum]].<ref name=tlat/>

Other structures, such as the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]], [[The Otesaga Hotel]], Clark Estate Office, [[Kingfisher Tower]], which lies on the east side of Otsego Lake, [[Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital|Bassett Hospital]], and The Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home, exemplify Cooperstown's architectural wealth.

[[File:The White House Inn.jpg|325px|thumb|right|The White House Inn]]

The Bowers family "[[Lakelands (Cooperstown, New York)|Lakelands]]" manor, neighboring "[[Mohican Lodge]]", and their former estate of "[[Willowbrook (Cooperstown, New York)|Willowbrook]]" (1818; presently the Cooper Inn) serve as further examples of grand homes erected by affluent residents. The Bowers family received the land patent extending from current-day [[Bowerstown, New York|Bowerstown]] to very near [[Cherry Valley, New York]], upon which Congressman [[John Myer Bowers]] built Lakelands in 1804. [[Woodside Hall]], on the eastern edge of the village proper, was built c. 1829 by Eben B. Morehouse and was subsequently owned by several prominent individuals, including, in 1895, financier Walter C. Stokes of New York City. Prior to the Stokes' ownership, the home was visited by [[Martin Van Buren]], the eighth President of the United States.

The village offices and Cooperstown Art Association are housed in a neo-classical building designed by [[Ernest Flagg]]. He is famed for Manhattan's 47-story [[Singer Tower|Singer Building]] and the [[Boldt Castle]] on the [[St. Lawrence River]]. The Cooperstown building was originally commissioned by Elizabeth Scriven Clark in 1898 as a [[YMCA]]. Her son [[Robert Sterling Clark]] gave it to the village in 1932 during the [[Great Depression]].

Several prominent buildings in town were designed or updated by noted architect [[Frank P. Whiting]], who originally worked under [[Ernest Flagg]]. A resident of New York City and Cooperstown, Whiting was also a noted artist. He designed the [[Fenimore Farm & Country Village]] farm buildings<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.farmersmuseum.org/farmers/about_us/mission_history |title=The Farmers' Museum - About Us - Mission & History<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=December 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529111035/http://www.farmersmuseum.org/farmers/about_us/mission_history |archive-date=May 29, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the shingle-style manor at "Leatherstocking Falls Farm", the residence of Dorothy Stokes Bostwick Smith Campbell, the landscaping for which was done by the all-female firm of Wodell & Cottrell in the 1930s.<ref>[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!249000!0#focus Campbell Garden 1930–1950<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Whiting also designed 56 Lake Street. In 1932 Whiting designed and built his residence, "Westerly", on a half-acre lot at the north end of Nelson Avenue. The home is in the Colonial style and today retains many interior and exterior features of the original home. In June 1923 Whiting wrote a featured monograph "Cooperstown in The Times of Our Forefathers" for volume IX of the [[White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs]] containing several sketches and measured drawings of homes in Cooperstown.

In 1916, financier William T. Hyde acquired "Glimmerglen", a lakeside property north of Fenimore Farm, from the Constable family.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/06/16/archives/cooperstown-many-additions-from-new-york-to-the-cottage-colony.html | work=The New York Times | title=COOPERSTOWN.; Many Additions from New York to the Cottage Colony | date=June 16, 1912 | access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref> The house burned to the ground shortly thereafter and was rebuilt by society architect [[Alfred Hopkins]], who also designed a new farm complex, gate house, and assorted dependencies. The estate was featured in a multipage advertisement in ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]'' magazine in late 1922 when the property was put up for sale. The manor and greenhouses were razed in the late 1960s after their acquisition by the Clark family. The stone gatehouse, featured in the ''[[Architectural Record]]'' is extant today and owned by the Clark Foundation, as is the boathouse and the distinctive cottage known as "Winter House".