Eustatia

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name = Eustatia
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caption = House in 2007
location = Beacon, NY
nearest_city =
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 30
lat_seconds = 48
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73
long_minutes = 58
long_seconds = 58
long_direction = W
area =
built = 1867cite web|last=Sharp|first=Corwin|title=National Register of Historic Places nomination, Eustatia|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=1968|date=November 27, 1978|accessdate=2008-01-14]
architect = Frederick Clarke Withers
architecture = High Victorian Gothic
added = 1979
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visitation_year =
refnum = 79001576
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governing_body = Private residence

Eustatia (Greek for "good place to stay") is a brick house overlooking the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, USA. It is a rare example of a cottage in the High Victorian Gothic style, located on Monell Place in the northwestern corner of the city

It was built in 1867 by noted architect Frederick Clarke Withers for his friend John Monell (after whom today's street is named), a New York state judge. Monell had recently married Caroline DeWindt Downing, widow of the influential Newburgh architect Andrew Jackson Downing, with whom Withers had studied. They built the house on property deeded to them by her father, John DeWindt, near her family's own cottage.

Withers' design was heavily influenced by the sketches and design ideas of his mentor, and appeared eight years later in an edition of Downing's popular "Cottage Residences", among many other plans Withers had added. It retains the form and reserve of many of Downing's designs, but adds the "polychromatic enrichment" of the styles Withers was beginning to explore. A garden next to the house remains as originally planned, and the interior retains many period details such as a tiled marble entry floor and dark walnut moldings.

Its original form and appearance have remained largely intact since its construction despite subsequent changes in ownership and the addition of modern utilities. In 1979 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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