A Moveable Feast

Doane Stuart School
799 South Pearl Street, Albany

Built on the site of the Rathbone Mansion, this building features elegant Victorian parlors and a chapel designed by Patrick Keeley of Brooklyn, the architect of Saint Joseph's Church in Arbor Hill and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Madison Avenue. In 1867, when the Rathbone Mansion was demolished to make room for what was then known as the Kenwood School, much of the building material was reused. 

All the fine woodwork and floors, the marble mantels, the decorated doors, the bay windows and the arched and square-headed windows were transferred to the new building. In particular, the garden wing of the new Kenwood retained many of the castellated features of the Rathbone Mansion's rural Tudor style.
 
 


To make a reservation for A Moveable Feast, 
call the Foundation at 518/465-0876.