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Born July 24, 1803 • New York City • New York
Died January 14, 1892 (aged 88) • West Orange • New Jersey
Movement / Style Gothic Revival • picturesque

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Newburgh
Rotch House, New Bedford, Mass., designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845–47?
Figure 2: Social and economic considerations in interior design.(left) Elaborate mid-19th century dining room in the Gothic Revival style, Lyndhurst, Tarrytown New York, designed by Alexander J. Davis.
Mae Jemison
Gothic Revival style bargeboard on the New York Yacht Club House (currently in Mystic, Conn., U.S.), by Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846
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