MinniesLand.com
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Original Audubon Prints
Description
The Audubon Estate on the Banks of the Hudson. Foot of 156th Street at Carmansville. Lith. of Major and Knapp, 444 Broadway, N.Y. For D. T. Valentine's Manual, 1865. (Thanks to Tom Blanton for the print.)
Our website has been named minniesland.com to honor the idea of home and family that was so critical to the success of the Audubons, and to recall their home in Washington Heights, the neighborhood where Leslie Kostrich, architect and proprietor of minniesland.com, grew up a century later. This page has been updated to include a pictorial history of the Audubon's New York home. Additional information on the current-day neighborhood of Washington Heights is available in the lounge on the page covering our e-correspondence with Audubon-Bachman descendant Susan Davis.
Minnie's Land, or Minniesland, was the name of the New York estate that John James Audubon and his wife, Lucy Bakewell Audubon, built for themselves with the funds they were realizing from subscription sales of Audubon's octavo edition of The Birds of America. The name derives from a Scottish endearment for mother that Audubon's sons, Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse, had begun using during the family's residence in Scotland in the 1830s when Audubon was collaborating with James MacGillivray on his Ornithological Biography.
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